
Flicks, Andrew Hedley
Cartoonist Marjane Satrapi penned an autobiographical series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, on which this film has been based. Persepolis tells her story as she grows up in Tehran under the rule of a tyrannical Shah and the early stage of the Iran-Iraq war. In her mid-teens (early 1980s), her family sends her to study in Vienna, where she discovers counter-culture, punk music, and ill-fated romance.
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