Reading Lolita in Tehran

Nov 21 2024 N/A NA

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

Plot

The autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathers seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics in revolutionary Iran.

Written by

Marjorie David, Azar Nafisi

Directed by

Eran Riklis

Cast

Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani

Crew

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Production Countries

Israel, Italy

Production Companies

Eran Riklis Productions, Topia Communications, Rosamont, Minerva Pictures Group, MiC

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Awards

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Average Rating
6.1 out of 10
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