At a time when American moviegoers’ concerns are firmly focused on domestic issues, or on international players like Russia and China, it may seem odd to have two documentaries come out in the same week about events that happened decades ago in Iran.
But Taghi Amirani’s “Coup 53” and Barbara Kopple’s “Desert One,” which open in select markets and in virtual cinemas on Aug.
21, have something to say about our current predicament even as they delve deeply into past collisions between the West and the Islamic world.The films are set decades apart, Amirani’s in 1953 and Kopple’s in 1980.
But they are inextricably linked, because the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister and strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,.
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