Taxi Driver for Iran's post-war with Iraq generation.
Crimson Gold is an intriguing and compelling and unfortunately all too rare look at Tehran's underbelly. The 1990s in Iran brought with it massive and unprecedented economic growth, but the trauma of the war with Iraq and the undealt with economic inequality gave way to an atmosphere of dread and ideological malaise under the Rafsanjani administration.
Hossein is one of these traumatized and forgotten men of the war, left behind by his…