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Persepolis
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.
2007 · Directed by Marjane Satrapi · 95 min · Animation · Drama · 14 frames
Tagline
The film Iran didn't want the world to see.
Crew
- Screenplay: Vincent Paronnaud
- Written by: Vincent Paronnaud
- Edited by: Stéphane Roche
- Music: Olivier Bernet
- Production design: Zaza
- Produced by: Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert
Cast
- Chiara Mastroianni as Marjane (voice)
- Danielle Darrieux as Marjane's Grandmother (voice)
- Catherine Deneuve as Marjane's Mother (voice)
- Simon Abkarian as Marjane's Father (voice)
- Gabrielle Lopes Benites as Young Marjane (voice)
- François Jérosme as Uncle Anouche (voice)
- Tilly Mandelbrot as Lali (voice)
- Sophie Arthuys as Walla (voice)
- Arié Elmaleh as Walla (voice)
- Mathias Mlekuz as Walla (voice)
Production
- Country: France, United States of America
- Language: German, Persian, French
- Studios: Société des Producteurs de L'Angoa, Sony Pictures Classics, PROCIREP, Soficinéma
- Budget: $7,300,000
- Box office: $22,783,990
- Themes: puberty, civil war, parent child relationship, 1970s, totalitarian regime, punk rock, bomb alarm, coming of age, orient, based on memoir or autobiography
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