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Iranian Nights

Iranian Nights

★ 8.0/10•1989•56m•Drama

A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

Howard Brenton · Writer

Tariq Ali · Writer

Penny Cherns · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime56m
LanguageEN
Release DateJan 1, 1989

Actors

Paul Bhattacharjee

Omar Khayyam

Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban

Caliph

Fiona Victory

Fiona Victory

Scheherazade

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