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Price of Freedom, The

Although she is living under a fatwa, nothing will stop Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin in her struggle against women's oppression and the forces of fundamentalism.
Series : Fearless - Stories from Asian Women | Episode : 2 | Year : 2001 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane
Director : Peter Du Cane, Mathew Kelley |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about being attacked by a mob, super: Taslima Nasrin.
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Access No. 134378 | 19 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Muslim men protesting, marching towards camera and chanting, super: Insulting the Koran will not be tolerated. Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about being taught that women were inferior. 10:01:03 Archival footage MCU Muslim man walking and calling on microphone, super; We'll skin your backs, group of men demonstrating, slo mo.
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Access No. 134379 | 29 secs | 1990s, 2000s, | Bangladesh; Sweden | © ITN / NFSA | Colour |
MCU freeze frame Taslima Nasrin in profile at window, super: The Price of Freedom, fade to black. WS Taslima in fur coat walking across snow, winter woodlands in B/G, MS Taslima wearing hat and fur, LS walking by woods, MCU Taslima walking. MCU Taslima reading from poetry book, MS two ornate domes of temple, low angle shot minarets of mosque, MS crucifix atop gable against blue sky, ornate dragon carving, MCU Taslima reading poem about religion.
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Access No. 134380 | 58 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Muslim men calling out religious edicts (fatwa) against Taslima Nasrin for blasphemy, Muslim man speaking at microphone, VS Islamic men, men speaking animatedly at microphone, MS audience of men raising arms and fists, MCU serious looking bearded man calling out.
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Access No. 134381 | 19 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Archival colour footage press conference, MS Taslima Nasrin speaking at microphone, good MS gang of press photographers, rear view Taslima in red dress taking seat on stage in front of applauding audience.
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Access No. 134382 | 10 secs | 1990s | Europe | © ARTE | Colour |
WS passenger jet coming in to land, hazy light, dissolve to WS modern bridge over river, super: Dusseldorf, Germany, WS odd-shaped building with many windows. Overhead shot Taslima Nasrin looking at papers, MCU Taslima's face, MS sitting in chair looking at papers and smoking cigarette. Sign for conference, pan up to sign above conference room door, WS delegates, MS Taslima speaking at lectern about negative influences of religion, WS translators in booth, MS Taslima at microphones. Dissolve.
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Access No. 134383 | 54 secs | 2000s | Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Salman Rushdie at typewriter, MS Ayatollah Khomeini with right hand raised, CU book ÒThe Satanic VersesÓ, pull back to reveal Rushdie holding up book.
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Access No. 134384 | 9 secs | 2000s | UK; Middle East | © ITN | Colour |
MS audience at conference, MS Taslima Nasrin addressing conference.
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Access No. 134385 | 11 secs | 2000s | Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Pakistan, high WS forest and river, silhouette boy pulling boat in river, WS dhow on river at sunset, LS woman followed by children walking through green farmland.
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Access No. 134386 | 14 secs | 1990s | Pakistan | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage 1940s Pakistan flag, two Pakistani officials saluting, map of Indian continent with highlighted Muslim east and west Pakistan, 1960s WS dead bodies in street, MS corpses, 1970s fighter jets taking off, MS armoured tank, MCU Indian soldier, POV moving tank over gun, field gun firing from bunker, profile soldier shooting rifle, jubilant soldiers and crowd, soldiers signing for new state of Bangladesh, 1971, Bangladeshi flag, map showing east India, Bangladesh and Burma above Bay of Bengal, zoom to Bangladesh and township of Mymensingh north of capital Dhaka.
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Access No. 134387 | 43 secs | Various | India; Pakistan | © ITN | Colour |
Archival colour footage Bangladesh, high shot busy street, MS Group of Bangladeshi women and children, WS people along road lined by trucks, MS family, young girl on father's shoulders, mother holding young child as doctor examines her, MS many pedicabs (trishaws). Dissolve.
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Access No. 134388 | 20 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ABC Television | Colour |
Re-enactment footage Taslima Nasrin as young girl, track L-R past furniture to forlorn looking girl playing with doll.
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Access No. 134389 | 25 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still colour framed photographs Taslima Nasrin's father and mother.
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Access No. 134390 | 22 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about her father having external relationships. Rear view Taslima typing at computer keyboard, MCU Taslima's face, MCU autobiographical books by Taslima, CU hands at keyboard, MCU Taslima's face. Re-enactment footage Taslima as girl, CU bare feet going up on toes, MS girl peering out window, MCU hands resting on window frame.
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Access No. 134391 | 34 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about being sexually abused by her relatives as a girl and being too afraid to tell her parents. Re-enactment footage Taslima as girl, overhead shot girl opening drawer and taking out the Koran, MCU rear view girl's face. Interview Taslima about learning from the Koran the inequalities against women.
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Access No. 134392 | 1 min 30 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still colour photograph Taslima Nasrin's mother wearing pink headscarf, slow zoom to face wearing glasses. Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about as a girl saying bad things about Allah, waiting for her tongue to fall off. Rear view Taslima at computer, CU Taslima. Dissolve.
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Access No. 134393 | 1 min 13 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Archival colour footage, pan right as female doctor in white sari walks into ward at Mymensingh Hospital, mothers and babies on beds, MS woman in spotted sari holding baby in lap. Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about women being unhappy to give birth to a female baby. CU crying baby as black line is drawn on brow, MS woman painting baby's eyebrows, CU baby's face as powder is dabbed on brow, CU woman lifting baby to her.
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Access No. 134394 | 32 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about women coming to the hospital with ruptured vaginas. Archival colour footage MCU flower bracelet being tied around arm, MS man marking forehead of Bangladeshi bride in bright orange sari, CU hands covered in henna markings holding white handkerchief, overlay CU face of bride crying, CU hands. Interview Taslima about writing poetry to express the suffering and pain of women.
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Access No. 134395 | 1 min 14 secs | 2000s, 1990s, | Bangladesh | © ABC Television | Colour |
MS Australian writer Hanifa Deen working at desk. Interview Hanifa, super: Hanifa Deen, Author ÒThe Strange Journey of Taslima NasrinÓ, talking about Taslima's rage and resentment at injustices to women, voiced in her writing. MCU Taslima Nasrin reading poem from book.
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Access No. 134396 | 1 min 16 secs | 2000s | Australia; Sweden | © NFSA | Colour |
CU pen writing on paper, MS Taslima Nasrin in pink sari writing at desk, CU writing in eastern script, CU Taslima's face.
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Access No. 134397 | 10 secs | 1990s | Not Known | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about Taslima Nasrin's radical ways of expression through her writing, her unpopularity in writing circles of Bangladesh.
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Access No. 134398 | 26 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MCU Taslima Nasrin lighting cigarette, overhead shot Taslima opening Koran (Qur-an), CU English and Arabic script of Koran, MS Taslima reading Koran.
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Access No. 134399 | 23 secs | 1990s | Not Known | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking out equality for women.
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Access No. 134400 | 9 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Low angle shot minarets of mosque, pull back from MS men bending down in prayer to WS three rows of men bent over in prayer.
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Access No. 134401 | 8 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about writer Taslima Nasrin's understanding of Islamic customs.
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Access No. 134402 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1992, high WS crowd of rowdy Hindu men, VS men protesting, climbing over destroyed Barbary mosque in Ayodhya, North India, rioters running to camera, tear gas canister smoking on ground, policemen chasing after demonstrators.
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Access No. 134403 | 24 secs | 1990s | India | © ITN | Colour |
CU cover of book ÒLajjaÓ (Shame), pan over photo of woman covering face to author's name, Taslima Nasrin.
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Access No. 134404 | 8 secs | 2000s | Unknown | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1994, angry Muslim man talking at microphones, crowd of men listening, young man talking via megaphones, seated crowd of men raising fists, super: Anti-Taslima demonstrations, man walking and shouting followed by marching protesters, MS demonstrators raising arms, then in slo mo.
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Access No. 134405 | 23 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
CU yellow poster, pull back to women demonstrating, raising fists, MS Bangladeshi women, super: Pro-Taslima demonstrations, WS women protesters with crowd of onlookers, MS young women shouting and punching air, passionate woman punching air, young woman with plaits in crowd calling out, slo mo.
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Access No. 134406 | 25 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about mob of people breaking up her book stall and throwing stones at her.
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Access No. 134407 | 38 secs | 2000s | Sweden | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage MS Muslim men marching in protest to Taslima Nasrin, rear view man speaking at microphones, pan to audience of men seated and standing.
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Access No. 134409 | 12 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Archival colour footage various Bangladeshi men, CU man in green turban, bearded man in white hooded headscarf, MCU man with long yellow beard.
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Access No. 134410 | 5 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Archival colour footage bridge, lines of cars on road, rear view traffic jam, thick crowd of people in street, many carrying baskets on heads.
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Access No. 134411 | 12 secs | 1990s | Calcutta, India | © ITN | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about Taslima Nasrin having been misquoted as having said the Koran needed revising.
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Access No. 134412 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage WS angry protesters shouting and walking to camera carrying banner, super: We won't tolerate blasphemy, high WS massive crowd of protesters, MS men behind banner marching and punching arms in air, super: We want Taslima hanged, MS men marching past camera with green flags, then slo mo.
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Access No. 134413 | 20 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about a price being put on her head by a religious leader.
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Access No. 134414 | 5 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage interview Taslima Nasrin by ABC reporter about Taslima's attack on Islam, VS Taslima and reporter.
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Access No. 134415 | 20 secs | 1990s | Unknown | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about Taslima Nasrin's name being known in Bangladesh as an outspoken feminist tackling the Islamic fundamentalists.
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Access No. 134416 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage two Muslim men in street, boys in B/G, vox pop one man saying the other man wanted to kill Taslima Nasrin. Rear view Taslima looking out window, CU Taslima at window
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Access No. 134417 | 22 secs | 1990s | Unknown | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival colour footage Muslim men protesting, shouting and waving sticks, slo mo young man with stick, dissolve.
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Access No. 134418 | 8 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Still colour photograph head shot Taslima Nasrin lying on floor reading, CU Taslima sleeping, dissolve.
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Access No. 134419 | 9 secs | 1990s | Unknown | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about Taslima Nasrin's time in hiding.
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Access No. 134420 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Taslima Nasrin's family, brother and sister, mother crying and being comforted, super: I can't bear it, CU Taslima's father, WS exterior wall with graffiti, tilt up broken window, CU broken window panes.
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Access No. 134421 | 17 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Interview writer Hanifa Deen talking about international campaign for release of Taslima Nasrin.
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Access No. 134422 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, Bangladeshi policemen wearing helmets walking to camera. 1994 footage CU Taslima Nasrin in glasses and headscarf closely surrounded by men, MS Taslima being guided by policemen through crowd at court, overhead shot people shuffling down corridor.
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Access No. 134423 | 25 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about court decision to throw her out of the country. Tilt from running river water to WS Stockholm buildings and bridge spanning river, WS building with Swedish flags and statue in F/G, tilt up statue of man on horse, MS ice floating on water, WS icefield with winter trees in middle, WS store, man waking past. Interview Ljiljana Dufgran, super: Ljiljana Dufgran of PEN writers group Sweden, talking about Taslima's arrival in Sweden and sadness at leaving her family and country.
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Access No. 134424 | 48 secs | 2000s | Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage Taslima Nasrin and others entering room for press conference, ECU camera lens, MS press photographers and cameramen, MS men taking photographs, rear view Taslima greeting onlookers behind barricade, pan from photographer to seated President Mitterand and wife talking with Taslima, MS press, WS Taslima and Mitterand sitting in blue armchairs talking amicably, Taslima leaving press conference as everyone applauds. Interview Taslima.
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Access No. 134425 | 28 secs | 1990s, 2000s, | France, Europe | © ARTE | Colour |
Archival colour footage CU Taslima Nasrin having makeup applied, bank of television monitors, rear view Taslima looking out to clapping audience, MS Taslima receiving award, Taslima with television host, CU Taslima. Interview Taslima talking about being made a symbol. MS French female journalist, CU Taslima.
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Access No. 134426 | 26 secs | 1990s, 2000s, | Various Europe | © ARTE | Colour |
Interview Taslima about knowing little girl's pain. WS silhouetted winter tree by icy lake, house in B/G, Taslima walking L-R along shore, WS Taslima in winter coat and fur scarf walking to camera. Dissolve.
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Access No. 134427 | 30 secs | 1990s, 2000s, | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage MS busy traffic with pedicabs (trishaws) passing camera, passengers looking at camera.
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Access No. 134428 | 2 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival colour footage WS anti - Taslima Nasrin protesters marching behind banner, super: Dhaka October 1998, MS angry men demonstrating, punching air, super: We want Taslima hanged, CU pan young men.
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Access No. 134429 | 12 secs | 1990s | Dhaka, Bangladesh | © ITN | Colour |
Interview Taslima Nasrin talking about wanting to be with her dying mother and having to go into hiding again, CU pan painting of Taslima's mother. Interview Taslima about not liking her mother because of her beliefs. Still colour photograph Taslima with her mother, interview Taslima, ECU painting.
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Access No. 134430 | 58 secs | 2000s, Various, | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA / Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
Archival colour footage hand on weapon, CU Bangladeshi policeman wearing helmet, MS pan group of policemen.
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Access No. 134431 | 11 secs | 1990s | Bangladesh | © Taslima Nasrin | Colour |
WS country house with winter trees and snow F/G, view from window to trees and neighbouring house, high angle profile Taslima Nasrin typing at computer, MS award on shelf, poster on wall, rear view Taslima at computer. Interview Taslima talking about oppression of women. MS Taslima and friends having dinner, MCU Taslima, MCU spooning food onto plate, WS friends around table in kitchen, CU eating food with hand, MS Taslima, WS friends in kitchen. Re-enactment footage Taslima as young girl kneeling on rug and standing to look out window. Dissolve to CU Taslima talking about trying for a Utopia.
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Access No. 134432 | 2 mins 6 secs | 2000s | Sweden, Scandinavia | © NFSA | Colour |
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