An academic faces oppression in Iran

Collaborating on a screenplay with Marjorie David , Israeli director Eran Riklis tells a story of academic oppression in Iran, basing his movie on a best-selling memoir by Azar Nafisi. In 1979, Nafisi ( Golshifteh Farahani) and her husband ( Arash Marandi ) returned to Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini had just come to power, and Nafisi -- along with many other returnees -- leaned toward the notion that a…