Stronger Than a Bullet (2017)

11/20/2017 (CA) • 1h 15m

Documentary, History

Overview

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.

Top Billed Cast

Saeid Sadeghi

Self - War Correspondent

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein

Self - Politician (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

Persian

Budget

$550,000.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

war correspondent

iraq

religious war

iran

religious fundamentalism

photojournalism

train travel

1980s

iranian revolution

traumatized man

islamic revolution

iran-iraq war

sunni islam

shia islam

shiism

sunnism

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