Coup 53
Obsessive and yet bracingly clear-minded, albeit anything but tidy, the film will enthrall documentary and history geeks.
Coup 53
With Iran and the world once again on the brink, COUP 53 feels less like history and more like a warning.
In 1953, a military coup led by British MI6 backed by the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime: nationalising the country's oil. The truth behind that original regime change for oil was buried for decades.
Iranian director Taghi Amirani spent ten years uncovering what really happened. Working with legendary editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) and a gripping performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film unfolds like a John le Carré spy thriller — except every word is true.
A documentary. A detective story. A reckoning. COUP 53 exposes the roots of today's tensions with rare clarity and urgency.
In 1953, a military coup led by British MI6 backed by the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime: nationalising the country's oil. The truth behind that original regime change for oil was buried for decades.
Iranian director Taghi Amirani spent ten years uncovering what really happened. Working with legendary editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) and a gripping performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film unfolds like a John le Carré spy thriller — except every word is true.
A documentary. A detective story. A reckoning. COUP 53 exposes the roots of today's tensions with rare clarity and urgency.
Genre
Documentary,
Films & Filmmakers,
Docu-drama,
Politics & World Affairs
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Runtime
119
Language
English
Director
Taghi Amirani
FEATURED REVIEW
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
Arguably one of the most consequential but little-discussed foreign policy decisions of the post-World War II era is enthrallingly dissected in Coup 53. People under 40 or so generally know something about Vietnam, the crumbling of the Soviet Union and European communism and the fallout from 9/11 ...
Opening at
Tasveer Film Center on May 14th
Town Center 5 on May 20th
Glendale on May 20th
Monica Film Center on May 20th
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 8.19.20 - 9.14.20
Royal 3.29.23 - 3.29.23
Town Center 5 3.30.23 - 3.30.23
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