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Persepolis (2007) More at IMDb Pro »

• France's official submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV).
  
  
• Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, and Iggy Pop lent their voices to the English-language dubbed version of the film, but they were all uncredited.
  
  
• Iran's government sent a letter to the French embassy in Tehran to protest against the movie and pressured the organizers of the 2007 Bangkok Film Festival to drop it from the lineup.
  
  

• Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni lent their voices to the movie's English- and French-language versions, playing the same roles.
  
  
• At the party given by the Austrian nihilists, the symbol of the famous industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten can be seen on the upper left-hand side of the screen.
  
  
• Wellington, New Zealand -- In July, 2008 the Iranian embassy angrily protested the screening of Persepolis during the 37th Wellington Film Festival.
  
  

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