Persepolis

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

• puberty
• civil war
• parent child relationship
• 1970s
• totalitarian regime
• punk rock
• bomb alarm
• coming of age
• orient
• based on memoir or autobiography
• based on graphic novel
• adult animation
• punk band
• woman director
• iranian revolution
• defiant