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    Iranian Nights

    Iranian Nights

    1989

    56:47

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    6.0/10 (1)

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    Genre

    Drama

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Penny Cherns

    Writers

    Howard Brenton, Tariq Ali,

    Stars

    Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban, Fiona Victory,