Synopsis:
One of everyone’s most favourite animated films in the past decade, Persepolis is the French-Iranian adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic autobiography, depicting the life of an Iranian bourgeois family surrounded by revolutionary social changes and their daughter’s coming-of-age and emigration.
- Director:
- Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
- Year:
- 2007
- Country:
- France
- Running time:
- 96 min.
- Technique:
- Mixed media
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Xavier Rigault
- Animators:
- Damien Barrau, Pascal Chevet, Florian Fiebig, Virginie Hanrigou, Gregory Lecocq, Habib Louati, Ahmidou Lyazidi, Nathalie Mathé
- Script writer:
- Vincent Paronnaud
- Music composer:
- Olivier Bernet
- Sound designer:
- Thierry Lebon
- Editor:
- Stéphane Roche
- Productions:
- Celluloid Dreams, CNC, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Région Ile-de-France
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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