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The Stoning Of Soraya M. DVD
Director Cyrus Nowrasteh teams with screenwriter Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh to illuminate the dangers of religious fundamentalism gender apartheid and mob rule with this fictionalized adaptation of Freidoune Sahebjam's best-selling novel centring on a true-life tragedy The story takes place in 1986 just as Khomeini is coming into power in Iran Undercover French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam (Jim Caviezel) is traveling though a small southwestern village when his car breaks down Surrounded by strife but left with little choice other to wait until his car is repaired the anxious Freidoune is soon approached by persistent local Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who convinces him to follow her into the courtyard behind her home There she reveals to him that she has just borne witness to a most heinous
crime Just the previous day Zahra had watched the men or her town stone an innocent woman to death That woman was Soraya (Mozhan Marn) long-suffering wife of abusive tyrant Ali Soraya wed Ali in an arranged marriage never realizing the horrors that she and her children would endure under her husband's heavy hand When Ali requested a divorce so that he would be free to marry a 14-year-old girl Soraya boldly refused knowing that she and the children would most certainly starve to death without a husband to support them Ali was too poor to return Soraya's dowry as custom dictates in a divorce but he found another way out of the marriage Under Shariah law adultery is a crime punishable by death if the accused is unable to prove her innocence Scheming with the newly installed counterfeit mullah
Ali accused his wife of adultery In order to ensure that she had no chance of defending herself he blackmailed several male villagers to testify on his behalf
crime Just the previous day Zahra had watched the men or her town stone an innocent woman to death That woman was Soraya (Mozhan Marn) long-suffering wife of abusive tyrant Ali Soraya wed Ali in an arranged marriage never realizing the horrors that she and her children would endure under her husband's heavy hand When Ali requested a divorce so that he would be free to marry a 14-year-old girl Soraya boldly refused knowing that she and the children would most certainly starve to death without a husband to support them Ali was too poor to return Soraya's dowry as custom dictates in a divorce but he found another way out of the marriage Under Shariah law adultery is a crime punishable by death if the accused is unable to prove her innocence Scheming with the newly installed counterfeit mullah
Ali accused his wife of adultery In order to ensure that she had no chance of defending herself he blackmailed several male villagers to testify on his behalf
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