Im not an Iranian, but I'll try. Here are a few links that might help
Plot Summary for Marmoulak (2004) written by Michael Hayden (2004 London Film Festival)
Released in Iran to a whirlwind of protest that made Christian America's reaction to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ look like a Sunday school scuffle, The Lizard had been hugely popular with the public and broken box office records before the government decided to pull the film under intense pressure from the influential Islamic clergy. The appealing comic set up may give a hint as to why it caused such outcry. Reza (Parvis Parastouie) is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise for longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a smalltown mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons featuring sexual innuendo and references to 'brother' Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. While clearly satirical, The Lizard is never overly cynical, and, with Parastoui's turn, contains a comic performance curiously reminiscent of, and indeed worthy of comparisons to, Eric Morecombe or Les Dawson. It's a million miles, then, from the serious artistic statements of a Kiarostami or a Makhmalbaf for which Iranian cinema is renowned, but that just makes it all the more refreshing.
News Article-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3786905.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3752025.stm
Interview with the director-
http://www.film247.net/features/interviews/kamaltabrizi.php
For more info-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416960/
For the DVD
http://www.musicboxla.com/matlidvd.html
http://www.iranianmovies.com/description/marmulak.htm
Reviews-
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/feeds/bbc/review/0,,the_lizard_2005_review,00.html?cinema-22/04/2005
http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/2152/printer
http://film.guardian.co.uk/Film_Page/0,4061,1333864,00.html
http://uk.lycos.co.uk/film/CinemaReview.aspx?FilmID=682
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/06/DDGOQ82OMM1.DTL
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2006-07-27 02:18:29
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See: http://www.iranianmovies.org/index.php/topic,484.0.html
2014-03-30 19:03:37
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