📚 Reading Lolita in Tehran

Based on Azar Nafisi's international bestseller. In post-revolutionary Tehran of the 1990s, literature professor Azar Nafisi gathers six of her students secretly in her apartment for a private reading circle.

Together they explore forbidden works of Western literature - from Nabokov to Fitzgerald, James, and Austen. A deeply moving drama about courage, hope, and the quiet power of words.

With Golshifteh Farahani. Original version with German subtitles.

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