Director: Manoto TV
Five episodes deep into this Manoto-produced oral-history series, part five turns to the mass unrest that swept Iran in the closing stretch before the monarchy fell in February 1979.
What is Parviz Sabeti 05 Balvaie Bozorg about?
This installment is built entirely around a single long-form interview: a former senior Iranian internal-security official recalls how street demonstrations, strikes, and clashes escalated across the country in the final pre-revolutionary months. Rather than dramatized reenactment, the episode relies on archival photographs, period news clips, and the subject's own recollections to walk through how state authorities read the unrest as it grew, what decisions were debated behind closed doors, and how communication between the security apparatus and the palace functioned under pressure. The pacing is unhurried and conversational, closer to a recorded testimony than a conventional documentary, letting the interviewee's account carry most of the runtime.
Cast & crew
There is no dramatized cast. The episode is carried by its single interview subject, a former Iranian security official, with the producing team at Manoto TV handling research, archival sourcing, and narration framing rather than any on-screen acting.
Context & significance
The series sits within a broader wave of Persian-language oral-history programming that has interviewed former officials of Iran's pre-1979 government about the country's late-Pahlavi-era security and political institutions. Viewers coming to this episode without the earlier installments may want the fuller arc, since it references organizational detail introduced in prior parts of the five-part run.
Where & how to watch
This page is free to browse without signing in. Streaming the episode itself requires a K-Time account login, and the interface is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences.