Product Details

• Actors: Empress Farah Pahlavi
• Directors: Nahid Persson Sarvestani
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English, Persian
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Walking Shadows
• DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003BMJ0DM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,382 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Channel Sources Dist Release Date: 06/29/2010 Run time: 90 minutes

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Queen did an exellent job not the filmmaker., April 12, 2010

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Megan (U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Queen & I (DVD)

I watched the movie. I did not like the filmmaker approach. In the begining she did not truthfully disclosed her past and her intention of making such a film. At times she was rude and asking irrelevant and unimportant questions.Filmmaker is still living in her childhood fantasy of an ideal world which will never be. Queen Farah once again proved to be an outstanding woman in the history of Iran; despite all the hardship and suffering through these 30 years. I admire her courage, kindness and benevolence. Long live the Queen.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Work, July 30, 2010

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James J. Varela (Sarasota, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Queen & I (DVD)

This film is outstanding Nahid Persson Sarvestani was one of the young people who opposed the Shah but quickly became disillusioned by the Clerical regime that replaced him coming face to face with the old system she loathed in her youth and goes through the journey of seeing her history from that point of view. So many myths surround the downfall of the Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran and this documentary puts a human face on it. It was interesting seeing Ms Sarvestani now a middle aged mature woman meeting the Shah's former supporters, the former Crown Prince and seeing the revolution from their point of view.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 12, 2011

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Animal Lover (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Queen & I (DVD)

Loved to watch this documentary. Even though I am not Iranian, my husband is. I have always heard his family talking about Queen Farah and the great life they had in Iran before the Iranian revolution. It is obvious from the most recent revolution attempt in Iran (after the election), that the Iranian people are not happy with the actual government of Iran. I was very moved by Queen Farah life story. Yes, people suffered in Iran during that time from poverty, but poverty happens everywhere in the world. I was in Cuba years ago. The people there suffered a lot. I am from Brazil. Lots of rich and poor people. But this is not only a 3rd world country story. I currently live in the US. There is not one day that goes by that I don't see a homeless person with a card box in his hand begging for money. Is this a reason to have President Obama and his family out of the US to live in exile? If this is the way it should be, no country would have a government. I hope to see Queen Farah and her family back to Iran one day. Hope to see the Mullahs paying for the horrendous crimes they commit.