Cinema Rex documentary koja bebinam online?

You can watch Cinema Rex on K-Time at ktime.app. Stream it on the web, your TV, or your phone without a VPN. The film runs nine minutes and is available with Persian subtitles.

Is Cinema Rex a film about the 1978 Abadan fire?

Yes. The documentary focuses on the Rex Cinema arson of August 1978 in Abadan, in which more than four hundred people were killed. It centers the testimonies of survivors recorded decades after the event.

Chenin kohtah hast? — How long is this documentary?

Cinema Rex has a runtime of nine minutes. It is a short documentary, but its subject — one of the deadliest incidents of pre-revolution Iran — gives it a gravity well beyond its length.

Aya persian dubbed dare Cinema Rex?

No Persian dub is available for this title. The film streams with its original audio track. Persian subtitles are provided so diaspora viewers can follow along comfortably.

Cinema Rex

Name: Cinema Rex
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023
Duration: 9 min
Cast: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Tsahi Halevi, Rotem Eisner

Director: Mitra Mahtarian, Sadegh Dehghan

Cast: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Tsahi Halevi, Rotem Eisner

Cinema Rex is a 2023 Iranian documentary directed by Mitra Mahtarian and Sadegh Dehghan, examining one of the deadliest acts of mass murder in modern Iranian history — the deliberate burning of the Rex Cinema in Abadan in August 1978, which killed more than four hundred people in a single night.

What is Cinema Rex about?

On a sweltering August night in 1978, a packed movie house in the port city of Abadan was set ablaze with the doors locked from the outside. Over four hundred men, women, and children perished in the flames. The perpetrators and their motives became a political flashpoint in the months that followed, as Iran descended into revolution. Decades after the fire, the filmmakers track down survivors whose testimonies reveal that the physical wound in Abadan's cityscape — where the cinema once stood — mirrors the unhealed grief still carried by individuals and families. Memory, silence, and unfinished mourning run through every conversation; the ruins of that building continue to mean different things to different people, and the full truth of that night remains contested terrain.

The K-Time take

At just nine minutes, Cinema Rex packs the weight of a feature-length reckoning. Mahtarian and Dehghan let the survivors' voices carry the grief without editorial overcrowding, trusting the material's inherent power. The result is spare, precise, and genuinely affecting — a short that functions more like a recurring wound than a resolved documentary.

Cast & crew

The film is co-directed by Mitra Mahtarian and Sadegh Dehghan. The documentary features Maisa Abd Elhadi, Tsahi Halevi, and Rotem Eisner in on-screen roles. No additional cast or crew details were provided in the production record for this short film.

Context & significance

The Cinema Rex fire of August 19, 1978, sits at a crossroads of catastrophe and political mythology for Iranians. At the time, blame was assigned — and disputed — across ideological lines, and the tragedy accelerated the revolutionary momentum that would change the country within months. For the diaspora, the event carries a particular weight: it belongs to the generation who lived through or fled that period, and it raises questions about collective memory, state accountability, and what cities owe to the dead. A documentary returning to Abadan's survivors forty-plus years later speaks directly to that diaspora experience of living with unresolved history far from home.

Where & how to watch

Cinema Rex is available on K-Time with original audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start or cancel anytime.