Lee Whitmore Interview about the making of SOHRAB AND RUSTUM from romance between two teacher and sudeant Watch Video
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Description: WINNER!Yoram Gross Award, Best Animation, Sydney Film Festival.nnSohrab and Rustum is an animation by Lee Whitmore about a charismatic young English teacher reading a famous poem to her class of fourteen year old girls whose concerns are pop music and nail polish. Unexpectedly the poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary battle on the sand between two warriors, the Tartar Sohrab and the Persian Rustum. The story ends tragically and the girls are confronted with the r