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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The filmmakers join the Bakhtyari in Angora, Turkey. The Haidar declares that the tribe must travel to find grass for the herd in Persia. Fifty thousand people and their animals struggle across the River Karun on goat skin floats and climb the Zardeh Kuh to find green pastures.This is yet another documentary of a lost way of live like Nanook of the North (1922). This is a slice of a world long gone but from an outsider western point of view. It doesn't really dig too deep into the culture and the Bakhtyari themselves don't have much of a voice in the film. The goat skin floats river crossing is just amazing and is something that I couldn't even imagine before this.

I am actually outraged at the comment I read stating that this movie was "boring" and the beautiful scenery was marred by the black and white footage. It was made in 1925!!!! I think it absolutely incredible for it's time! The journey that these people had to go through is utterly remarkable. It took them a week just to cross a river. The women carried their children in heavy wooden cradles on their backs climbing up a solid sheet of rock, sometimes barefoot in the snow. I would like to see Anybody do that now! I thought it was a wonderful film with some truly amazing shots and an incredible story.

grass if nothing else is a wonderful little documentary about a group of nomadic herders traveling through the harsh realities of post ottoman syria, iraq, and Iran. modern viewers use to the exploits of Micheal Moore wouldn't recognize this as what we commonly refer to as a documentary. today's documentaries are usually have a political axe to grind in some way or another. this documentary is more in the spirit of national geographic, it is quite simply, documentation of something with little to no comment and no discernible agenda. given all that this film might not have a lot of value for general audiences. anthropologists on the other hand would probably love something like this. the track of these through deserts, over rivers, and through mountains in a time and place where modern technology had yet to creep into all corners of the world is stark and amazing. the ingenuity and ruggedness of the people is almost completely absent in todays world of internet and cell phones and supermarkets.great film, limited appeal. for a general audience i'd give it a six out of ten. students of history might like it better.

This 1925 silent, inspired by "Nanook of the North," is the story of an incredible people, the Bakhtiari, who annually move over 50,000 people and a half million animals between their summer and winter grazing pastures in Iran. They ford raging icy rivers and climb/descend a 15,000 foot mountain. Incredible footage; the filmmakers nearly froze to death.A remake of the story is "People of the Wind" (1976), which is beautifully done. "Grass" is the story of the trek from the winter to the summer pastures; "People" is the reverse trip. Both are available (at last!) on video from Milestone Films.