Persepolis
“The film Iran didn't want the world to see.”
Overview
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Vincent Paronnaud
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Société des Producteurs de L'Angoa • Sony Pictures Classics • PROCIREP • Soficinéma • France 3 Cinéma • Diaphana Films • Sofica EuropaCorp • Celluloid Dreams • The Kennedy/Marshall Company • La Région Île-de-France • Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma • 2.4.7. Films • French Connection Animations • CNC
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