Lolita lesen in Teheran | in Kooperation mit Hamseda Together Literaturherbst Heidelberg - Worte des Widerstands

In the organizer's words:

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN

Premiere on Thursday, November 20, 7:30 pm (OmU version) in cooperation with Hamseda Together, Literaturherbst Heidelberg and Worte des Widerstands.

Lotteries of the novel and the audiobook among all guests of the event

I/ISR 2025 | Director: Eran Riklis | 108 min | FSK 12
Performers: Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir, Mina Kavani, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar, Raha Rahbari, Lara Wolf

In post-revolutionary Tehran in the 1990s, literature professor Azar Nafisi dares to undertake a silent act of resistance: she secretly gathers six of her female students in her apartment for a private reading circle. Together, they immersed themselves in the banned works of Western literature - from Vladimir Nabokov to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James to Jane Austen. In the midst of political repression and religious control, reading becomes an act of self-empowerment that inspires the women to reflect on freedom, love and identity.

Director Eran Riklis tells the true story of Azar Nafisi - based on her international bestseller of the same name. The result is a deeply moving drama about courage, hope and the silent power of words.

Price information:

regular: € 10,- | reduced: € 8,- (Reduction: Guild pass, students, pupils, senior citizens over 65, severely disabled pass, social pass)