Synopsis
A German-Iranian family from the GDR longs for its home and its freedom and gets caught up in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. A gripping historical drama based on actual events. Iran, February 1979. After the fall of the Shah, the Islamic Revolution sweeps the land. Full of love and hope, the young chemist Beate (Katrin Röver) follows her husband Omid (Reza Brojerdi), an Iranian dissident living in the GDR, to his home country. But after the initial euphoria the situation for Beate and her 8-year old daughter quickly deteriorates. While the new, revolutionary government turns into an ever more ruthless regime, Beate’s family have to make a fateful decision.
Bio
HOSSEIN POURSEIFI (*1976) came to Germany from Iran with his family at the age of nine. He became known as a director and screenwriter for his award-winning short film Punched & Punished/Falsche Freunde. Tomorrow We Are Free is his first feature length film.
Info
Original Title: Morgen sind wir frei
International Title: Tomorrow we are free
Category: Feature
Section: Große Freiheit
Version & Subtitles: Persian, German OV with German subtitles
Director & Screenplay: Hossein Pourseifi
Cast/Protagonists: Katrin Röver, Reza Brojerdi, Luzie Nadjafi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Payam Madjlessi, Sima Seyed, Morteza Tavakoli, Enissa Amani
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2019
Length: 97 min
Producer: Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Armin Hofmann, Frank Geiger
Production company: Little Dream Entertainment GmbH
Cinematography: Patrick Orth
Editor: Katharina Schmidt, Ali Samadi Ahadi
Music: Ali N. Askin
Production Design: Petra Klimek
Commissioning Editor: Götz Schmedes, Barbara Häbe
Distributor: Faraz Schuster, Little Dream Pictures GmbH
