Coup 53

Release Date: 2019-09-01

Overview: Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

Rating: 7.962 / 10

Cast

Ralph Fiennes

as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

Taghi Amirani

as Self - Filmmaker

Farhad Diba

as Self - Mossadegh's Nephew

Malcolm Byrne

as Self - Researcher

Stephen Kinzer

as Self - Writer

Crew

Abbas Kowsari - Additional Photography
Mehdi Hasani Bafrani - Sound Recordist
Vicente Franco - Additional Photography
Ben Richards - Additional Photography
Moslem Tehrani - Additional Photography

Reviews

CitygalSF:

This important movie, over 4 years in the making, is even more pertinent today, with renewed tensions with Iran. Prodigious research underlies the revelation of British leadership in the coup that re-...