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Iranian Film Mocking Clerics is Box-Office Hit


(Reuters) Parisa Hafezi and Paul Hughes - An award-winning Iranian comedy poking fun at the conservative clerics who run the Islamic Republic is breaking box-office records after narrowly squeezing past the country's zealous censors. "The Lizard" follows the fortunes of a thief who escapes prison by donning the turban and robes of a Muslim cleric.
2004-04-29 00:00:00
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