Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024)
Rating: 7.3/10
Duration: 108 min
Genres: Drama,
Director(s): Eran Riklis,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Lara Wolf as Azin
- Rita Yahan-Farouz as Rita
- Raha Rahbari as Manna
- Golshifteh Farahani as Azar Nafisi
- Reza Diako as Bahri
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Sanaz
- Ash Goldeh as Nima
- Sina Parvaneh as Niyazi
- Arash Marandi as Bijan Nafisi
- Mina Kavani as Nassrin
- Bahar Beihaghi as Mahshid
- Isabella Nefar as Yassi
- Shahbaz Noshir as Magician
- Catayoune Ahmadi as Mahtab
- Abbas Fasaei as Arash