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Before the Revolution poster

Before the Revolution

"The untold story of the Israeli paradise in Iran."

77
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54m
History, Documentary
Starring Ervand Abrahamian · Ruhollah Khomeini · Ronald Reagan
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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.

Director
Dan Shadur
Original Title
לפני המהפכה
Original Language
HE
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Ervand Abrahamian
Self
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
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Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)

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