Iranian Nights
1989•56m•8.0•Released
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.
Director
Penny Cherns
Writer
Tariq Ali, Howard Brenton
Languages
English
Studio
Bandung Productions
Cast
Paul Bhattacharjee
Omar Khayyam
Nabil Shaban
Caliph
Fiona Victory
Scheherazade
Production
Company
Bandung Productions
Producer
Tariq Ali
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