Liberation (2009)
21m
Running Time
July 26, 2009Release Date
Plot.
In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the country's Islamic Revolution. Forced into exile, he settled in an isolated mansion in Cuernevaca, Mexico and watched as his empire collapsed on television. A powerful examination of dictatorship and its psychological effects on a man, LIBERATION explores a key turning point in Middle-East History and the origins of the Iran we know today.
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Cast & Crew.
Steven T. Bartlett
BBC Cameraman
Aladine Naamou
Imperial Guard
Navid Negahban
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Shila Ommi
Farah Diba Pahlavi
Christian Reeve
Imperial bodyguard 2
Michael Saad
General Fardoust
Parviz Sayyad
Reza Shah (voice)
Glen Vaughan
Frost
Details.
Wiki.
Liberation is a 2009 docudrama about the Shah of Iran. Centered on his exile in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the film features actual archival footage from the Iranian Revolution of 1979 as well the Shah's interview with David Frost.
The film was released in 2009 by Seventh Art Releasing and played preceding the documentary The Queen and I. At its 2011 screening at the Noor Iranian Film Festival, star Navid Negahban won Best Actor.