Między pamięcią a historią: animowana rewolucja irańska
Between Memory and History: Animated Iranian Revolution

Summary/Abstract: Total Islamization, which prevailed in Iranian culture at the beginning of the 1980s, brought about a change in the values of the Pahlav dynasty of 1921-1979. Openness to the idea of liberalism and modernization in the Western (American) spirit was replaced with a focus on Shia Islam. Dozens of books, articles and films were created about the Revolution in Iran of 1979. Among them is “Persepolis” (2007) – a French full-length animated film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on an autobiographical comic book of the same title by Satrapi. No other of the audiovisual feature films about revolutionary events had such publicity and became so popular in the Western world. Why did a cartoon, very subjective version of the history of 20th-century Iran, caused the events of the country isolated for four decades, to be identified with fanaticism and terror and have become close to many viewers around the world?

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