Sufi, Saint & Swinger

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Sufi, Saint & Swinger

""My first and worst mistake was being born""

2020

1h 11m

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The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution.

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Lloyd Miller

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