Chicken with Plums

Sydney Premiere | 2013

Director's Biography
Director's Biography
Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children’s book author. Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War.

Synopsis

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Festivals

  • Venice Film Festival 2011
  • Toronto International Film Festival 2011
  • Los Angeles Film Festival
  • San Francisco international Film Festival 2012
  • London Film Festival 2011
  • Melbourne International Film Festival 2012
  • Tribeca Film Festival 2012.

Production Team

Director
Marjane Satrapi
Country
France, Germany, Belgium
Runtime 
94 min
Language
French with English Subtitles
Premiere Status 
Classification 
18+
Year
2013
Screenwriter 
Producer
Hengameh Panahi
Cinematographer 
Editor
Cast
Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric

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