"End of Empire” cameraman Humphry Trevelyan recounted his memories of filming MI6 officer Norman Darbyshire at the Savoy Hotel and subsequently retracted his testimony in COUP53 after discussions with the producers of End of Empire....
After a spectacular world premiere at Telluride Film Festival in 2019, Coup 53 went on general release on 19 August 2020. On 21 August 2020, the producers of a 1985 British TV programme called "End of Empire: Iran" published a press release in which they...
On 2pm EDT August 24th Brane Živković from Tisch School of the Arts will moderate a MasterClass with Coup 53 in Music and Animation. Coup 53's own composer Robert Miller, Animation Director Martyn Pick, and Animator Ali Charmi will talk about their process, the challenges...
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh writes about Coup 53 in the Saturday Review for the Times: "August 19 is not a significant date in the UK calendar, but for many Iranians it marks an unbearable national tragedy — for which the British government has blood on its hands....
In anticipation of Coup 53's transatlantic virtual premiere on August 19th, the Financial Times' Raphael Abraham review of Coup 53 came out August 12, 2020. He gave the film four stars, saying: "A documentary about the western-backed ousting of Mohammad Mosaddegh is full of surprises and...
Everything about COUP 53, the explosive new documentary about the CIA/MI6 overthrow of democracy in Iran, is unique, including how it is reaching audiences in these unprecedented times. In what could be a first in cinema and radio, the film has teamed up with the Northern...
Shots.net published a visual excerpt of Martyn Pick's extraordinary work on Coup 53. Click through to check it out. "In animated moments from documentary Coup 53, Pick's painterly sensibilities make reconstructed wartime images look visceral and vibrant. It's not often we run excerpts from feature films in the...
TEHRAN – Three Iranian movies are competing in the 38th edition of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which opened today in the U.S. cities of Providence and Newport. “Coup 53” directed by Taqi Amirani is one of the films. While making a documentary about the Anglo-American...
"The hidden role of a British secret service officer who led the coup that permanently altered the Middle East is to be revealed for the first time since an Observer news story was suppressed in 1985. The report, headlined “How MI6 and CIA joined forces to plot Iran...
"He didn’t intend to, but Amirani ended up spending 10 ever-more obsessive years on Coup 53, and his struggle is far from over. The reactions at film festivals have been tremendous. At the Telluride Film Festival screening last September, when I originally reviewed it, I...
Championed by Werner Herzog, this doc lays bare the West’s complicity in the 1953 coup that brought down Iran’s elected prime minister. If you’re looking for something encouraging about the UK’s standing in the world, ‘Coup 53’ may not be it, but for a pungent...
We increasingly love a lot of the documentaries getting cinema releases and the COUP 53 trailer is intriguing and here’s a novel way to see it. The debut feature documentary thriller by Iranian director Taghi Amirani will receive a unique digital release on 19th August 2020, the 67th...