by Nahid Persson Sarvestani (Sweden, 2009, 90 min., video)
When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Empress Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the Shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. As a child, Nahid lived in poverty. As a teen, she joined the Communist faction of Khomeini’s revolution that deposed the Shah and forced Queen Farah’s family to flee the country. When Khomeini betrayed his promise for democracy, Nahid was forced to flee as well. Thirty years later, she needs key questions answered and goes directly to the source. Surprisingly, Queen Farah welcomes her as a fellow refuges. Over the next year and a half, Nahid enters the Queen’s world, planning to challenge the Shah’s ideology; instead, she must rethink her own.
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