Weltfilmtage Thusis zu Gast im Cinema Sil Plaz in Ilanz

The enchanting cinema adaptation of the comic by Marjane Satrapi

Marjane no longer understands the world. In Tehran in the late seventies, the Islamic Revolution changes the whole of society – and also Marjane's life: the bright girl seeks advice from her sharp-tongued grandmother. And debates at night with God and Karl Marx.

With the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the time of the "revolutionary commissars" began, who controlled clothing and behaviour. Marjane now had to wear a veil – but this did not detract from her thoughts and actions, which were as playful as they were insurrectionary. She grew up and fell in love with Bruce Lee, ABBA and Iron Maiden. She secretly bought corresponding music cassettes on the black market. Worried, the parents sent their daughter to Europe. In faraway Vienna, Marjane slipped unchecked into teenage life, became a punk and became entangled in amorous entanglements...