Persepolis

A film by Marjane Satrapi. Starts June 20th at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

PERSEPOLIS was one of the most successful films shown in our cinema. Last week, the author and director, Marjane Satrapi, passed away at the age of just 56. For this reason, we are bringing the film back into our programme after 19 years.

The film adaptation of the comic book of the same name.
“The film tells the story, in simple, almost entirely black-and-white images, of the little girl Marjane, who grows up in Tehran, goes to school in Austria, returns to Iran for a while, and then goes into exile in Paris for good. The story begins with the ousting of the Shah, continues through the betrayed hopes of the revolution to the war between Iran and Iraq, and ends with the tyrannical rule of the mullahs – all seen through the eyes of the adolescent.
It is the author’s perspective, as she tells her own story in her immensely successful comics: clever, witty, self-deprecating, and at times deeply sad. Instead of using digital animation techniques, the film was drawn entirely by hand. That is why it actually looks like Marjane Satrapi’s books in motion.” Verena Lueken

“In the 1980s, when Iran was fighting Iraq, many upper-middle-class parents sent their children from Tehran to the West for their education, including my family. In Austria, my first stop, I often had to explain that my father didn’t have three wives and why I didn’t ride a camel at home. They were surprised that I’d already been skiing and had drunk alcohol. Just imagine: you come from Tehran, which was already very modern at the time, to a small Austrian village – and here they explain modernity to you. They didn’t even have a cinema in the village!”
Marjane Satrapi

Credits:

Fr 2007, 96 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Marjane Satrapi / Vincent
Paronnaud
Nach den gleichnamigen Comics von Marjane Satrapi
Originalstimmen: Gabrielle Lopes, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, François Jerosme

„Preis der Jury“ – Cannes 2007