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Rosamont
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Moshe Edery, Michael Sharfshtein, Eran Riklis, Santo Versace, Gianluca Curti, Marica Stocchi
Writer: Marjorie David
Director: Eran Riklis
Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart
Top Cast
Golshifteh Farahani
Azar Nafisi
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Sanaz
Mina Kavani
Nassrin
Bahar Beihaghi
Mahshid
Isabella Nefar
Yassi
Raha Rahbari
Manna
Lara Wolf
Azin
Shahbaz Noshir
Magician
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