Septembers of Shiraz
After creating a prosperous life in Iran, a Jewish family may be forced to abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries as a revolution looms on the horizon.
November 27, 1988 in Sofia,Bulgaria
15 August 1976, Varna, Bulgaria
11 May 1952, Tehran, Iran
1969, New York City, New York, USA
20 October 1974, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
22 January 1972, Israel
30 September 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria
2 September 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
18 May 1971, Sofia, Bulgaria
19 June 1982, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
19 February 1979, Algiers, Algeria
9 June 1980, Tehran, Iran
28 May 1965, Israel
21 December 1987, Sofia, Bulgaria
July 05, 2016
...fast moving and passably exciting...
June 23, 2016
Long on cardboard characterizations and short on genuine tension.
January 09, 2017
There might be some way to depict the Iranian Revolution on film, but Septembers of Shiraz is not it.
June 23, 2016
...captures what it must be like to have your life suddenly turned around into total chaos, the hopelessness, the helplessness, and the despair that descends when thrown into a dungeon where people all around you are being executed on a daily basis.
July 09, 2016
Made with passion and compassion, Septembers of Shiraz is a marvelously crafted film that leaves a lasting impression
June 24, 2016
Another vacuous melodrama/thriller that doesn't lay a glove on the era's historical complexities.
June 23, 2016
It's a movie whose good heart is outweighed by its heavy hand.
July 07, 2016
A wildly inauthentic American melodrama about the 1979 Iranian revolution.
June 20, 2016
This autobiographically inspired tale of a wealthy Jewish family in Tehran suffering under Iran's shift to fundamentalist Islam, which played in print as hard-hitting but nuanced, now feels like a simplistic, somewhat pandering melodrama.
September 18, 2015
This lifeless, by-the-numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium. Its sole joy is in trying to figure out which of its leads is overacting most.
June 20, 2016
Heavy with earnest good intentions but too underpowered and oddly packaged to deliver the emotional gut punch its subject demands, Septembers of Shiraz is a disappointing misfire.
