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.
Golshifteh Farahani
as Azar Nafisi
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
as Sanaz
Mina Kavani
as Nassrin
Bahar Beihaghi
as Mahshid
Isabella Nefar
as Yassi
Raha Rahbari
as Manna
Lara Wolf
as Azin
Shahbaz Noshir
as Magician
Arash Marandi
as Bijan Nafisi
Catayoune Ahmadi
as Mahtab
Reza Diako
as Bahri
Ash Goldeh
as Nima
