Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024)
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.
Director: Eran Riklis
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Golshifteh Farahani as Azar Nafisi |
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Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Sanaz |
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Mina Kavani as Nassrin |
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Bahar Beihaghi as Mahshid |
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Isabella Nefar as Yassi |
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Raha Rahbari as Manna |
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Lara Wolf as Azin |
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Shahbaz Noshir as Magician |
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Arash Marandi as Bijan Nafisi |
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Catayoune Ahmadi as Mahtab |
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Reza Diako as Bahri |
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Ash Goldeh as Nima |
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Sina Parvaneh as Niyazi |
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Rita Yahan-Farouz as Rita |
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Abbas Fasaei as Arash |
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Hamid Karimi as Ghomi |
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Zanyar Mohammadi as Farzan |
| Production | Santo Versace | Producer |
| Production | Michael Sharfshtein | Producer |
| Production | Gianluca Curti | Producer |
| Production | Eran Riklis | Producer |
| Production | Moshe Edery | Producer |
| Writing | Marjorie David | Writer |
| Writing | Azar Nafisi | Novel |
| Production | Marica Stocchi | Producer |
| Directing | Eran Riklis | Director |
| Production | Michal Koren | Casting |
| Production | Eran Riklis | Casting |
| Production | Jacopo Cino | Line Producer |
| Production | Sharon Harel-Cohen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Maya Amsellem | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jael Unger | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rami Ungar | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ishay Mor | Executive Producer |
| Production | Shaul Scherzer | Executive Producer |
| Production | Marcello Mustilli | Executive Producer |
| Production | Dana Lustig | Executive Producer |
| Production | Marjorie David | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Gianluca Costamagna | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Aviv Aldema | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Nin Hazan | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Nadia Paone | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mary Montalto | Costume Designer |
| Art | Tonino Zera | Production Design |
| Sound | Yonatan Riklis | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Hélène Louvart | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Arik Lahav-Leibovich | Editor |
