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Persepolis

The film Iran didn't want the world to see.

2007 · 1 h 35 · France, United States · French

  • Animation
  • Drama

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.

Directed by
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Written by
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Based on
Marjane Satrapi

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