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An interesting, if occasionally slow and overtly polemical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved American classic, filmed and set in Iran the year after the CIA-led deposition of liberal president Mossadeq. The necessary updating of the Civil War setting to modern-day Iran requires that we see the incoming Shah Pahlavi and his family as the rapacious Yankees and carpetbaggers, while the noble, tradition-revering Southerners become a diverse group of liberal progressives incensed by US interference and much given to stomping on the Stars and Stripes and burning effigies of Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Rooney in the streets of Tehran. Sarfitta Oharakiri, a spoiled young Persian princess, is bored by the coup and more interested in getting handsome dreamy Ashkaban to marry her. but he is pledged to his cousin, the simple and good Melamoodi, so Sarfitta runs away to Tehran where she scandalizes the good townsfolk by giving them the first demonstration of the hand-jive they have ever
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