Studying the best examples of modern Iranian cinema in the “Art of Islam” classes of the master’s course at the Orenburg Theological Seminary
The article examines the experience of analyzing Iranian cin-ematographic texts in the framework of studying the subject “The Art of Islam”, taught in the master’s program of the Orenburg Theological Seminary. The focus is on three directorial works - “Where is the Friend’s House” (1987) by A. Kiarostami, “The Color of Paradise” (1999) by M. Majidi and “Unripe Pomegranates” (2014) by M.R. Mostafavi. The themes and plots of the lms are drawn from the world of Islam, they well show the details of the everyday life of modern Muslim life, both urban and rural, and at the same time their moral and philosophical problems are universal, since they a rm traditional values.