Tehran, 1978: Young Marjane dreams of chan­ging socie­ty for the bet­ter as the “last pro­phe­tess of the gala­xy”. After the fall of the Shah, the­re is a spi­rit of opti­mism in her cos­mo­po­li­tan, poli­ti­cal­ly enga­ged fami­ly — until the Islamic Republic and the new govern­ment bring fear, cen­sor­ship and repres­si­on. Marjane rebels in pri­va­te with punk, iro­ny and defi­ance. Nevertheless, she can­not live out her youth free­ly. To pro­tect her, her par­ents send her abroad alo­ne. In PERSEPOLIS, Marjane Satrapis wea­ves her auto­bio­gra­phi­cal gra­phic novel into a visual­ly powerful black-and-white ani­ma­ti­on about gro­wing up in times of poli­ti­cal vio­lence. (SAC)