Persepolis - English subtitled
Film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about the growing pains of an Iranian adolescent in a loving and cosmopolitan family in Tehran.
In the autobiographical Persepolis, Satrapi recounts her childhood in Tehran. The fall of the shah is met with great excitement in the Satrapi family. However, the Islamic revolution does not bring freedom and prosperity, but only a new (and even worse) dictatorship. Marjane’s parents take their rebellious daughter to safety at a boarding school in Austria. Here, fourteen-year-old Marjane is introduced to the West, punk music and love. Persepolis uses bold black-and-white animation, closely based on Satrapi’s drawings, to tell a personal and powerful coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of political turmoil.
This light and often funny, yet also deeply moving film was awarded the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2007 and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category.