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Persepolis (2007)
  • Caption: Persepolis (2007)
  • Description: The coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the fundamentalists first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. The story then follows her as she cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send her to school in fear for her safety and, she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself alone and horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age twenty-four, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.

    Directed by
    Vincent Paronnaud
    Marjane Satrapi

    Writing credits
    (in alphabetical order)
    Vincent Paronnaud screenplay
    Marjane Satrapi comic & screenplay
    Marjane Satrapi novel


    Cast (in credits order)
    Chiara Mastroianni ... Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi, as a teenager and a woman (voice)

    Catherine Deneuve ... Mrs. Statrapi, Marjane's mother (voice)
    Danielle Darrieux ... Marjane's grandmother (voice)
    Simon Abkarian ... Mr. Satrapi - Marjane's father (voice)
    Gabrielle Lopes ... Marjane as a child (voice)
    François Jerosme ... Anouche (voice)
    Arié Elmaleh ... (voice)
    Mathias Mlekuz ... (voice)
    Jean-François Gallotte
    rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Stéphane Foenkinos
    Tilly Mandelbrot ... Lali (voice)
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  • Movie: Persepolis
  • Id: 10924493
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