"On the Situation of Theatre and Cinema" (Persian: در موقعیت تئاتر و سینما) designates a thirty-minute speech by Bahram Beyzai given in the evening of October 12, 1977 in the premises of the German Cultural Institute, Tehran. A SAVAK report estimated that about eight thousand constituted its audience. The text as well as the voice of this speech was subsequently published numerous times and came to be among the best-known discourses on freedom of speech and censorship in Iran.

The Goethe Poetry Nights of 1977 was held by the Writers' Association of Iran, and Beyzai, as a founding member of the association, delivered this speech on the third night, a rainy Wednesday evening.

References

• Naficy, Hamid (2011). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, II: The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978. Duke University Press.
• سپانلو, محمدعلی (2002). سرگذشت کانون نویسندگان ایران. Stockholm: Baran. ISBN 91-88297-67-5.

External links

External audio
Original voice on SoundCloud
The voice recording of the whole third night of Goethe Institute Poetry Nights on YouTube
Mandana Zandian's speech about the ten nights at Stanford University + Q&A − 5 March, 2020 on SoundCloud
Mandana Zandian's speech in the conference celebrating Bahram Beyzai's tenth year at Stanford, 2021 on YouTube