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Stronger Than a Bullet (2017)
Directed by Maryam Ebrahimi
Documentary, History · 1h 15m
Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.
Cast
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Ruhollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Crew
- Director
- Maryam Ebrahimi
- Writer
- Maryam Ebrahimi, Jesper Osmund
- Director of Photography
- Zare Zahraie, Sébastien Saadoun
- Original Music Composer
- Stefan Levin
- Editor
- Axelle Schatz, Jesper Osmund
Details
- Release date
- 2017-11-20
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Persian
- Countries
- Canada, France, Sweden
- Production
- Seconde Vague Productions, ARTE, Nima Film, SVT, TVO
- Budget
- $550,000