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Reading Lolita in Tehran

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.

Top Cast

  • Golshifteh Farahani

    Golshifteh Farahani

    Azar Nafisi

  • Zar Amir Ebrahimi

    Zar Amir Ebrahimi

    Sanaz

  • Mina Kavani

    Mina Kavani

    Nassrin

  • Bahar Beihaghi

    Bahar Beihaghi

    Mahshid

  • Isabella Nefar

    Isabella Nefar

    Yassi

  • Raha Rahbari

    Raha Rahbari

    Manna

  • Lara Wolf

    Lara Wolf

    Azin

  • Shahbaz Noshir

    Shahbaz Noshir

    Magician

  • Arash Marandi

    Arash Marandi

    Bijan Nafisi

Overview

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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