Tower of Silence 2000
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A Zoroastrian boy returns to Yazd, that it is his hometown, after 20 years. He wants to give his father a promise to take his corpse to the catacomb, he does it overnight and burns his father in his mind.A Dakhma also called a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation – that is, for dead bodies to be exposed to carrion .
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Persian Title:
دخمه
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Tower of Silence
Persian Title in English:
Dakhmeh
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2000()
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26'40"
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