Words
Ord
Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death for his words in “The Satanic Verses” and is still in hiding. Václav Havel spent five years in prison because of his words, and later, by virtue of those same words became president of his country. Khomeini’s use of power conveyed Orwell’s images of a future world. In the company of eminent writers such as Günter Wallraff, Joseph Brodsky, Julio Llamazares, Aziz Nesin, Paul Auster, Villy Sørensen and Mario Vargas Llosa, the film investigates and celebrates words as media of reality and seduction, might and faith, experience and belief; as political tools, poetry and declarations of love.