Metrograph

The 1953 Iranian coup d’état that removed democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh from power, orchestrated by the CIA and the United Kingdom’s MI6, is dramatically reconsidered in this riveting investigative documentary by Amirani who, in the course of his research with co-writer and editor Walter Murch, uncovered long-unseen 16mm archival footage and documentation throwing new light on the putsch… and its repercussions more than 70 years later. Politically provocative and formally inventive, with Ralph Fiennes playing the role of MI6’s Norman Darbyshire, a key player in the backroom conspiracy. “[Murch] worked on The Conversation and The Godfather: Part II so there’s not much that he doesn’t know about conspiracy—how it leaks into a movie like the smell of drains.” —The New Yorker