Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
France
Directors: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Script: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud adapted from Marjane Satrapi's original comic book
Animation: Marc Jousset, Christian Desmares
Editing: Stéphane Roche
Art Director: Marisa Musy
Music: Olivier Bernet
Voice Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopez, François Jerosme
Production: 2.4.7 Films, France 3 Cinéma
Distribution:
Diaphana
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Year: 2007
35 mm, B & W, 95 mn, OV French Language
Jury Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2007
Nominated for Best Foreign-Language Oscar 2008
In Teheran in 1978, eight-year-old Marjane imagines her future and dreams of being a prophet saving the world. She is pampered by her modern and educated parents and is particularly close to her grandmother. She elatedly follows the events which will lead to the revolution and the fall of the Shah Regime. The establishment of the Islamic Revolution goes along with the "commissioners of the revolution" who control outfits and behaviours. Marjane who has to wear the veil now dreams of being a revolutionary. The war with Iraq soon brings bombing, privation and loss of close ones. The domestic repression becomes more severe every day. Her free talking and rebel positions become more and more problematic. Her parents then decide to send her in Austria to protect her. Fourteen-year-old Marjane experiences her second revolution in Vienna: adolescence, freedom, love and its intoxicating effects, but also exile, loneliness and difference.