What happens to an actress In Iran if the ruling mullahs and other religious conservatives dislike a film you were involved with: you get flogged and jailed, of course.
Marzieh Vafamehr, Iranian actress and wife of screenwriter and director Nasser Taghvai, was sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for a film she starred in entitled "My Tehran For Sale".
An Iranian/Australian co-production, apparently it tells the story of a young woman, also named Marzieh, who lives in Tehran under the current regime. Also an actress (and mime), she is banned from her theatre work by Iranian officials, which forces her to live a double life in order to nurture her artistic needs. The film explores just what that secret life means in urban Tehran, something that many Iranian youth are forced to do these days.
Life imitating art and vice versa.
However, one does have to remember that this is what the Iranians wanted back in the late 1970s.
All I have to say is: Be careful what you wish for!!
Source: TelegraphUK
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