Iranian Nights

Jan 1, 1989

0h 56m

★ 6.0

Overview

A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

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Drama

Production Companies

Bandung Productions

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Cast

Omar Khayyam

Paul Bhattacharjee

Caliph

Nabil Shaban

Scheherazade

Fiona Victory

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