Seifollah Dad, the director of the anti-Zionist film "The Survivor" died of a heart attack

Seifollah Dad, the director of the anti-Zionist film "The Survivor" suffered a heart attack and passed away at Tehran's Mehr hospital Tuesday morning.

He was born in 1955 in the city of Khorramshahr, southwest of Iran.

"The Survivor" produced in 1995 by Sinafilm cultural institute was one of Dad's everlasting works which won the special prize of the jury of the 14th Fajr film festival in 1995 and the prize of the fifth film festival of the NAM countries in Pyong Yang in 1996 for the best scenario.

The film tells the story of a Palestinian physician, Saeed, who lived with his wife, Latifa, and his new-born son, Farhan, in the Palestinian city of Haifa in 1948.

Saeed sees the Zionist terrorist, Shimon who was his childhood friend, at the railway station with a bomb-laden suitcase. Saeed tells the police but Shimon escapes before arrest. Shimon and his men set Saeed's car on fire and order him to leave Haifa before 'a coming genocide.'

Saeed's mother, Safiyya, arrives in Haifa to encourage him to leave the city. The day they have decided to leave, Zionists attack Haifa and Saeed and his wife are
killed in Haifa genocide.

A Jewish couple occupy Saeed's house and take custody of Farhan and put a Hebrew name on him. Safiyya enters their life as a nanny until Saeed' father, Rasheed, decides to bomb a train carrying Zionists. He asks Safiyya to accompany the Jewish couple and Shimon who are traveling to al-Qods on the train, with a bomb-laden suitcase.

When Safiyya switches the timed bomb on, Shimon becomes suspicious of her, but she jumps with Farhan out of the train before the explosion and dies.

Farhan, the only survivor of the family, cries in her embrace. He symbolizes the surviving Palestinian generation.