Before the Revolution
2013
7.7 (3)
54 min
Hebrew
The untold story of the Israeli paradise in Iran.
A documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shah's regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.
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Ervand Abrahamian as Self
Shaul Bakhash as Self
Zahra Eshraghi as Self
Ruhollah Khomeini as Self (archive footage)
Bruce Laingen as Self
John Limbert as Self
Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
Shadi Sadr as Self
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Dan Shadur · Director
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