In 1979, amidst censorship and religious extremism, a revolutionary literature professor in Tehran gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Golshifteh FarahaniAzar Nafisi
- Zar Amir EbrahimiSanaz
- Mina KavaniNassrin
- Bahar BeihaghiMahshid
- Isabella NefarYassi
- Raha RahbariManna
- Lara WolfAzin
- Shahbaz NoshirMagician
- Arash MarandiBijan Nafisi
- Catayoune AhmadiMahtab
Crew
- Eran RiklisDirector
- Marjorie DavidWriter
- Eran RiklisWriter
- Azar NafisiNovel
- Hélène LouvartDirector of Photography
- Yonatan RiklisOriginal Music Composer
- Arik Lahav-LeibovichEditor
- Santo VersaceProducer
- Michael SharfshteinProducer
- Gianluca CurtiProducer
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