Movie Monday: Our Man in Tehran

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Monday, November 24th, 2014
6:30 PM

Hollywood told the story in its way in the political thriller ARGO (2012). Here's the real story, and from the Canadian perspective their is much to celebrate about our role. This documentary gives an excellent history that lead to the 1979 Iranian uprising that lead to a hostage taking, and our embassy's sheltering of six diplomatic personnel from the US Embassy. Ken Taylor, (pictured here then and now), Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald are some of our heroes. The hostages' eventual escape with a cover story of a film crew scouting for a fake sci-fi film called Argo did happen. Again, the real story is better than fiction! PG. 2013. 85 minutes. Watch a trailer

Here is a nifty backgrounder interview featuring former Canadian Ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor; and the film’s co-director Drew Taylor; and executive director Elena Semikina.

About Movie Monday:
Monday nights at the Eric Martin Pavilion theatre - near Fort and Foul Bay. Come celebrate nearly-free (by donation and cheap snacks), popular, mental health and social cause movies hosted by The Movie Monday Society.