Wednesday, May 25, 2016

My Stolen Revolution (2013)


Director: Nahid Persson Sarvestani 
Run time: 75 min. 
Call Number: DS318.839 .M97 (2013)

"A student activist in Iran's 1979 revolution that overthrew the dictatorial Shah, Nahid Persson Sarvestani fled to Sweden with her baby after Islamists seized power and began persecuting leftists who had been their revolutionary allies. Three decades later, prompted by brutal crackdowns on protests in Iran and long-suppressed guilt for abandoning a younger brother to imprisonment and death, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker locates and reunites with five women who were tortured in the jails she so narrowly escaped. . . ." 
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