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Lolita lesen in Teheran
In post-revolutionary Tehran in the 1990s, literature professor Azar Nafisi dares to stage a quiet act of resistance: she secretly gathers six of her female students in her apartment for a private reading circle. Together, they immerse themselves in banned works of Western literature – from Vladimir Nabokov to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James to Jane Austen. Amid political repression and religious control, reading becomes an act of self-empowerment that inspires the women to reflect on freedom, love and identity.
In READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, Eran Riklis (LEMON TREE) tells the true story of Azar Nafisi – based on her international bestseller of the same name. The result is a deeply moving drama about courage, hope and the quiet power of words. With poetic imagery and carried by an outstanding ensemble cast led by Golshifteh Farahani and Zar Amir, the film impressively shows how literature can create spaces of inner freedom even in the darkest of times.