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Marjane Satrapi
Director 1969 - 2026

Marjane Satrapi

Rasht, Iran

Marjane Satrapi (November 22, 1969 – June 4, 2026) was a French-Iranian graphic novellist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the 2000–03 autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis and its 2007 film adaptation; the... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles
Radioactive

Radioactive

Marjane Satrapi 2019 1h 51m 6.5

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

The Voices

The Voices

Marjane Satrapi 2014 1h 44m 6.7

A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

Poulet aux prunes

Poulet aux prunes

Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud 2011 1h 32m 7.8

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Persepolis

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud 2007 1h 35m 8.2

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi 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.

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