On Wings of Fire (1986)
- Directed by
- Cyrus Bharucha
- Genre
- drama, history
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 8.8 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A film that explores the history and teachings of Zoroastrianism through dramatic scenes and narration. It follows figures from the religion's past and present to explain its core ideas.
educationalcontemplativeseriousreverentnarrative-drivenhistoricalphilosophicalstately
What happens
On Wings of Fire (originally titled A Quest for Zarathustra) is a 1986 English-language Indian film directed by Cyrus Bharucha and starring Zubin Mehta, Paul Shelley, Saeed Jaffrey, Amrish Puri, with Nigel Terry as Zarathustra and Derek Jacobi as the narrator. It is the first and only film to cover the philosophy and history of Zoroastrianism in a scholarly and dramatic way. The film was premiered at Mumbai's Sterling Cinema in June 1986, and was released in the United States in 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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