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