Between Revolutions
A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in parallel via images of everyday life and videograms of revolution.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Vlad Petri
Actors: Ilinca Harnut, Victoria Stoiciu
Country: Romania, Qatar, Iran, Croatia
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