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PERSEPOLIS, 2007. ©Sony Pictures Classics/courtesy Everett Collection
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Persepolis (2007)
Set in 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi first witnesses the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution before it gives way to the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, becoming a repressive tyranny in its own right.

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