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Reading Lolita in Tehran

First aired on Nov 21, 2024

Runtime: 108 mins

70%

Genres: Drama

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.

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Golshifteh Farahani | Azar Nafisi
Zar Amir Ebrahimi | Sanaz
Mina Kavani | Nassrin
Bahar Beihaghi | Mahshid
Isabella Nefar | Yassi
Raha Rahbari | Manna
Featured Crew
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Michael Sharfshtein | Producer
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Moshe Edery | Producer
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Santo Versace | Producer
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Gianluca Curti | Producer
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Eran Riklis | Producer
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Marjorie David | Writer