BORN IN EVIN

By Maryam ZAREE

CURRENT TIME TV - as BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Weltpremiere, 2019 2019
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Maryam ZAREE
    • Writer(s)
    • Alex TONDOWSKI, Ira TONDOWSKI, Arash T. RIAHI, Sabine GRUBER, Karin C. BERGER
    • Synopsis
    • Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Exactly forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and the Islamic Republic declared. In the 1980's Ayatollah Khomeini, the so-called religious leader, had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted and murdered. Among them the filmmaker's parents who, after years about their persecution and imprisonment. Maryam Zaree faces the decades-long silence and explores her own questions about the place and the circumstances of her birth.