Persepolis (2007)

Name: Persepolis
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Released: 2007-06-27
Rating: 7.887
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes Benites

AnimationDrama

95 min

"The film Iran didn't want the world to see."

Plot Summary

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi 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.