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Persepolis(2007)

  • Genre:
    • Animation
    • Drama
  • Director:
    • Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

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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Written by swappatura on 20.12.2009

"Persepolis" is the transposition of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel. She recounts her girlhood in Iran and beyond, starting with the Shah being deposed and the rise of Iran's current fundamentalist Islamic state, and stretching through Satrapi's parents' decision to send her to sch

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