Soraya

The story is not same with what I've read about Shah M. R. Pahlevi and Princess Soraya, but this movie is interesting and a good one for showing a dramatic love story with sad ending (even though I don't understand their language at all).

This movie is great, just see the actor's facial expressions and body language I can understand what they're meant. Beside Anna Valle is beautiful (just look at her eyes and her hair) and acting very good in this TV show. So was Erol Sander, he is handsome and a good actor. The director is doing such a wonderful job directed this TV show. The dresses that Anna Valle used in this show are very good and very perfect for her (similar jewelry that she wore).

In a real life Shah M.R. Pahlevi was not a handsome man he was in fact 10-year older than Soraya, but Princess Soraya was truly a beautiful lady.

It showed that the Shah tried to pull his country into the modern world ... why he had to become more autocratic when his enemies became stronger ... something we have seen play out again and again. The Iran of today is is a prison of its people ... not too many places left of this sort anymore either. A matter of time before that country will see another overthrow ... god bless! So yes - the movie shows a thin slice of Persia's long history and is reasonably well made.

Please notify the clueless idiot to learn the name of the country IRAN is pronounced E-Run Not EYE-RAN !

Makes the viewer lose respect for the film's authenticity!

Please notify the clueless idiot to learn the name of the country IRAN is pronounced E-Run Not EYE-RAN !

Makes the viewer lose respect for the film's authenticity!

Please notify the clueless idiot to learn the name of the country IRAN is pronounced E-Run Not EYE-RAN !

Makes the viewer lose respect for the film's authenticity!

Please notify the clueless idiot to learn the name of the country IRAN is pronounced E-Run Not EYE-RAN !

Makes the viewer lose respect for the film's authenticity!

In the film when the Shah signs a document in Persian, he does it from left to right, but Persian language is written from right to left! So a guf !

I do not know why the director or the screenplay writer has replaced Princess Ashraf (the real sister of Mohammad Reza Shah) by a fabricated character named Princess Samira which has been cited in the film as the cousin of Shah.

Another thing, the cloth of servants at Sadabad Palace is Turkish, not Persian.

Anyway an entertaining film! :)

If I were to make a movie about a foreign land, culture, history, etc. I would do a bit of investigation first. The least I would do is to check my story with a native. Not one of the actors or actresses is from Iran or Iranian decent. And there are many of them available these days. The movie seems to be made out of the book by Soraya herself which does not necessarily match the historical events. For example, in Iran they did not have Emperors, they had Kings. King's palace called SADABAD is in north of Tehran and nowhere near the sea. This is a movie made for the taste of western audience and bent in a few places to make it more attractive to them. As a result, it has lost its exotic and factual touch.