The Stoning of Soraya M.
| The Stoning of Soraya M. | |
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| Persian: .سنگسار ثريا م | |
| Directed by | Cyrus Nowrasteh |
| Produced by |
Stephen McEveety John Shepherd Todd Burns Diane Hendricks |
| Written by | Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh Cyrus Nowrasteh |
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La Femme Lapidée by Freidoune Sahebjam |
| Starring |
Mozhan Marnò Shohreh Aghdashloo Jim Caviezel Parviz Sayyad Vida Ghahremani Navid Negahban |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Cinematography | Joel Ransom |
| Edited by | David Handman Geoffrey Rowland |
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| Distributed by | Roadside Attractions |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Persian English |
| Box office | $1,090,260 |
The Stoning of Soraya M. (Persian: .سنگسار ثريا م Sangsâr Sorayâ M.) is a 2008 American Persian language drama film adapted from French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's 1990 book La Femme Lapidée.
The film is directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and stars Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (as Zahra), James Caviezel (as Freidoune Sahebjam, the foreign journalist) and Mozhan Marnò (as Soraya Manutchehri, the title character). The Stoning of Soraya M. had its world premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Director's Choice Award. It was also the second runner-up for the Cadillac People's Choice Award. The book has been banned in Iran.
Stranded in the remote Iranian village of Kuhpayeh by car trouble, a journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman with a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of Soraya's death, by stoning, the previous day. The two sit down as Zahra recounts the story to Freidoune, who records the conversation with his tape recorder. The journalist must escape with his life to tell the story to the rest of the world.
Ali is Soraya's abusive husband who tries to get the village's mullah to convince Soraya to grant him a divorce so that he can marry a 14-year-old girl. Ali is able to convince the mullah by making threats to tell the rest of the village about his past as a convict.
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