Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Nahid Persson Sarvestani is a Swedish-Iranian documentary filmmaker. Her most famous documentary films are Prostitution Behind the Veil, My Mother – A Persian Princess, The End of Exile, and The Last Days of Life. In 2007, after being arrested and briefly imprisoned by the authorities in Iran for allegedly shaming her native country with her documentary on two prostitutes in Tehran, she completed the documentary Four Wives - One Man under dangerous conditions. The film portrays a polygamous family south of Shiraz smuggled out of Iran and finally edited in Sweden. As of November 2008, Persson Sarvestani finished the production of The Queen and I, a 90-minute documentary in which the director's year-long, complex relationship with the former Iranian Empress Farah Pahlavi is examined.
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