original title:
Reading Lolita in Tehran
italian title:
Leggere Lolita a Teheran
directed by:
cast:
Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar, Raha Rahbari, Lara Wolf, Arash Marandi, Shahbaz Noshir, Catayoune Ahmadi, Reza Diako, Ash Goldeh, Sina Parvaneh
screenplay:
Marjorie David, from the novel with the same title by Azar Nafisi
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Yonatan Riklis
producer:
production:
United King Films, Topia Communications, Rosamont, Eran Riklis Production, Minerva Pictures, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Regione Lazio
world sales:
country:
Italy/Israel
year:
2024
film run:
108'
format:
colour
release date:
21/11/2024
festivals & awards:
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. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of women's resilience in revolutionary Iran.