Holy Spider, Movie, 2022

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Honda CG 125

1995 Iran Khodro Paykan

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mk9013 ◊ 2025-12-14 14:08	Completed - set in Mashhad, Iran but filmed in Amman, Jordan
Gamer ◊ 2025-12-14 21:41	You've been down too long in the midnight sea...
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2025-12-14 21:42	The director said that he smuggled real Paykans from Iran. Quote But sometimes it was very difficult to get certain things. For example, obtaining Paykan cars, which were omnipresent in Iran in the 1990s and early 2000s. They were the period-correct cars, only produced in Iran. But they’re not used much in Iran anymore, and if people want to export them, it’s usually for use in motion pictures. The Iranian government wants to control that, of course – and they wouldn’t allow it [for Holy Spider]. So we had to put them in containers as junk, and ship them out of Iran via the United Arab Emirates and then Saudi Arabia. But when the cars arrived at the Saudi/Jordan border, the Saudi border guy looked at the papers, saw that the shipment came from Iran – and then sent it back to the Emirates. We had to find another ship to take the cars around the Red Sea, receive them a month later in Aqaba at the southern tip of Jordan, and then transport them up [to the shoot]. Link to "www.bfi.org.uk"

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mk9013

◊ 2025-12-14 14:08

Completed - set in Mashhad, Iran but filmed in Amman, Jordan

Gamer

◊ 2025-12-14 21:41

You've been down too long in the midnight sea...

Gag Halfrunt

◊ 2025-12-14 21:42

The director said that he smuggled real Paykans from Iran.

Quote But sometimes it was very difficult to get certain things. For example, obtaining Paykan cars, which were omnipresent in Iran in the 1990s and early 2000s. They were the period-correct cars, only produced in Iran. But they’re not used much in Iran anymore, and if people want to export them, it’s usually for use in motion pictures. The Iranian government wants to control that, of course – and they wouldn’t allow it [for Holy Spider]. So we had to put them in containers as junk, and ship them out of Iran via the United Arab Emirates and then Saudi Arabia. But when the cars arrived at the Saudi/Jordan border, the Saudi border guy looked at the papers, saw that the shipment came from Iran – and then sent it back to the Emirates. We had to find another ship to take the cars around the Red Sea, receive them a month later in Aqaba at the southern tip of Jordan, and then transport them up [to the shoot].

Link to "www.bfi.org.uk"

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