Top Cast
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Anna Valle
Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari
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Erol Sander
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Mathilda May
Chams
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Stoyan Aleksiev
Représentant anglais
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Anton Alexander
Kim Roosevelt
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Claude Brasseur
Mossadeq
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Antonio Dechent
Kalil Esfandiari Bakhtiari
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Sergio Ammirata
Iranian Ambassador
Overview
Biopic of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979's Islamic Revolution.
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