COUNTRY: Italy, Israel YEAR: 2024 RUNNING TIME: 108 min
DIRECTED BY: Eran Riklis
LANGUAGE(S): Persian, English
SUBTITLE(S): German
CAST: Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir, Mina Kavani
PRODUCER: Marica Stocchi, Gianluca Curti, Moshe Edery, Santo Versace, Eran Riklis, Michael Sharfshtein
WRITTEN BY: Marjorie David
EDITED BY: Arik Lahav-Leibovich
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Helene Louvart
MUSIC: Yonatan Riklis
Screenings
Synopsis
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.
Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of women’s resilience in revolutionary Iran.
Director
Eran Riklis
Biography
Eran Riklis, born in Jerusalem in 1954, grew up in Canada, the USA, Brazil, and Israel. In 1984 he became the first Israeli graduate of the prestigious National Film and Television School in England. He directed numerous television productions and more than 300 commercials before focusing on feature films. His breakthrough came with CUP FINAL, screened in Berlin and Venice. Among his most acclaimed works are THE SYRIAN BRIDE, winner of multiple international awards in Montréal, Locarno, and Ghent, and LEMON TREE (2008, Berlinale Panorama Audience Award). 2019 Riklis’s spy drama SPIDER IN THE WEB was produced through a significant international collaboration, with Ben Kingsley and Monica Bellucci starring in the lead roles.
Filmography
Volcano Junction (1999), Pituy (2002), The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008), The Human Resources Manager (2010), Playoff (2011), Zaytoun (2012),Dancing Arabs (2014), Shelter (2017), Spider in the Web (2019), Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024)
Links /Contacts
WEBSITE: https://weltkino.de/filme/lolita-lesen-in-teheran
INSTAGRAM: @weltkinofilmverleih
PRODUCTION: Minerva Pictures, United King Films Ltd, Rosamont with Rai Cinema, Topia Communications, Eran Riklis Productions Ltd.
WORLD SALES: Westend Films