cinema trust Mehrzad Danesh wrote on his personal channel: The disaster of Tabas mine explosion and the death of dozens of compatriot miners working there was one of the most bitter events of the past days. As far as memory helps, there is no prominent presence of miners and miners in Iranian cinema, and perhaps the film “Special Inspector” (Mansour Tehrani, 1998) is the only title in this regard; A film about the workers of a coal mine during the Pahlavi era, who are abused by the contractor, and the special inspector who is supposed to look into their situation, does nothing, and the workers inevitably start fighting against the employer. “Special Inspector” was one of the dozens of revolutionary films of that era, which was filled with slogans and devoid of cinematic goods.
But among the many foreign film and television works in this regard (perhaps the most vivid of them is “Germinal” (Claude Berry, 1993), which is adapted from the famous novel by Emile Zola), my mind is more towards the third part of the third season of “Taj” series. turned away; The episode was about the collapse of the coal mine in the village of Aberfan, England in 1966 and the death of 144 people, most of whom were children. In this poignant episode, Queen Elizabeth takes a week to decide to visit Aberfan and sympathize with the victims. The work pauses on his reasons for postponing his journey and delicately reflects on the place of politics and government in these kinds of tragedies. Perhaps one of the best parts of this episode of the series, It is a conversation between Wilson, the Prime Minister of England at the time, and his assistant, in which Wilson expresses concern that the incident will have negative consequences for his cabinet. Andrew, his assistant, doesn’t take him seriously and reminds him that the heavy rain caused the mine to collapse and it’s not a political issue. Wilson also reminds him that: “Everything is political Andrew.”
The fact that in most movies and television works about mining, the issue of the difficulty of miners’ work is tied to politics, is a phenomenon that can be studied and pondered and shows a reality that, by the way, in reality itself, the general politicians avoid it: the relationship between justice and prosperity and politics .