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.
- Genres
- Drama
- Year
- 2024
- Country
- Italy, Israel
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Updated
- 27.05.2026 04:21
Director
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
