I ordered this from the UK as it is not available there mainly because of all the rave reviews. However I have discovered that it is the auteur himself who is writing these 5 star reviews. The film is simply awful beyond belief. I have not the words to describe how bad this film is. From the orange sepia filter that has been put on everything to hide bad sets and art direction to the laughable dialog that would have a porn film director hang his head in shame, one wonders what Anthony Quinn was doing in this vanity project. My guess is that he was so old and sick that he was happy to take any work especially if it paid well. I also imagine that this man Shokof was wealthy enough to offer him a hefty fee. There is a weird homoerotic threrad in the film which if the director was honest enough could have evolved into a Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger type thing but the film is so pretentious that any redeeming feature is deeply buried. Simply vile!