Coup 53
2020
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Taghi Amirani is an Iranian-born English physicist and documentary filmmaker who lives in the United Kingdom. He has worked primarily in television, prior to the release of the film documentary Coup 53 in 2019.
While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover never seen before archive material hidden for decades.
Coup 53 is a 2019 British documentary about the 1953 Iranian coup d'état to overthrow Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, co-written and directed by Taghi Amirani and co-written and edited by Walter Murch.
In the documentary Coup 53, writer and director Taghi Amirani tells the story of how British and American secret agents overthrew Mosaddegh after he nationalized his country's oil industry,...
Aug 18, 2023 · NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen and Coup 53 filmmaker Taghi Amirani about the 70th anniversary of the coup in Iran.
Aug 17, 2020 · Taghi Amirani and Walter Murch discuss their new documentary “Coup 53” about the MI6 and CIA-led coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh.
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Aug 19, 2020 · Coup 53: Directed by Taghi Amirani. With Ralph Fiennes, Walter Murch, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
