Inside the Iranian Uprising

Jun 29, 2023

0h 53m

★ 0.0

Overview

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Passion Pictures

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Cast

Self

Awin Mostafazadeh

Self (archive footage)

Mahsa Amini

Self

Shiva Nazarahari

Self (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Self (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self (archive footage)

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

Self

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Self (archive footage)

Nika Shakarami

Self

Nasrin Shakarami

Self (archive footage)

Sarina Esmailzadeh

Self (archive footage)

Mohsen Shekari

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ramita Navai

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