“Veil” is lifted in Tirana on a film that was banned in Iran

In the context of “The Spring of the French speaking countries,” activity which is being held from 17 to 29 April 2008, there will also be a premiere screening of the film, “Persepolis” The film, screened on 3 April at the Marubi Cinema on 3 April, evokes the Arab world, but was banned in Iran. “Persepolis” is being screened in Tirana only a few months after it contended for a prize in the last Oscars. It won real fame after it was highly assessed at the Cannes Festival in 2007, where it was awarded the Jury’s Prize. This is a French production by Marian Satrap and Vincent Parronnaude. Under the interpretation of the voices of actresses Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Danielle Darrieux comes a history which is based on the autobiography, bearing the same title, by Marianne Satrap, a Franco-Iranian author. The history related is the biography of Satrap in hr country of birth.
The film, “Persepolis” produced in the form of a full length one hour thirty five minutes feature film takes us back to Teheran of 1978. At that time Marianne is eight years old, born and brought up in a family of intellectuals, which later on is involved in he social-communist movement in Iran, prior to the Islamic revolution. The small girl witnesses the collapse of the regime of the Shah, and later on the first years of the Iran-Irak War. Crisized by the Iranian authorities for its description of the Islamic Revolution, this animated Franco-Iranian film, “Persepolis” was not permitted to be screened in Lebanon, which has also produced reactions. Its author Marianne Satrap lives in Paris.