Stronger Than a Bullet
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- History
- Documentary
Overview
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.
Keywords
- 1980s
- iraq
- war correspondent
- train travel
- religious fundamentalism
- iranian revolution
- traumatized man
- iran
- religious war
- photojournalism
- iran-iraq war
- islamic revolution
- shia islam
- sunni islam
- shiism
- sunnism
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 20, 2017
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Persian
- Countries
- Canada, France, Sweden
- Production
- SVT,ARTE,TVO,Seconde Vague Productions,Nima Film
- Director
- Maryam Ebrahimi
- Writer
- Maryam Ebrahimi,Jesper Osmund
- Producer
- Emelie Persson
- Cinematography
- Sébastien Saadoun,Zare Zahraie
- Music
- Stefan Levin
- Budget
- $550,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt7971994