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Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island

Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 30, 2013

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

سیمین، ساکن جزیره سرگردانی

Production Companies

BBC Persian

Director

Hassan Solhjou

Description

Simin Daneshvar was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3 different political regimes. She and her husband, (Jalal Al Ahamd) have been regarded as "Iranian Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre". But they had a very different fate. Simin's life is a mirror of what has happened to Iranian women throughout a century, from unveiling the hijab and playing important roles in society to imposing hijab and staying at home in the Islamic regime. This film looks at her life through the history of women's movement in Iran.