Persepolis

Synopsis

Growing up in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an outspoken, punk-rock-loving young girl named Marjane witnesses the fall of the Shah, the rise of fundamentalist moral police who enforce the veil, and the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War, sent by her worried parents to boarding school in Vienna where she experiences exile and loneliness before returning to Tehran as a young woman. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Cannes Jury Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated animated masterpiece based on Satrapi's graphic novels featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, and Danielle Darrieux.