Nahid persson sarvestani biography
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Nahid persson sarvestani biography
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Swedish-Iranian documentary filmmaker
Nahid Persson Sarvestani | |
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Sarvestani in 2013 | |
| Born | Nahid Sarvestani (1960-05-24) 24 May 1960 (age 64) Shiraz, Imperial State of Iran |
| Occupation | Documentary film director |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Nahid Persson Sarvestani (born 24 May 1960) 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 recently finished the production of The Queen and I