Soraya M. (Mozhan Marno), being prepared by Iranian soldiers for the stoning.
"The Stoning of Soraya M." takes place shortly after the 1979 revolution that brought fundamentalist Islamists to power in Iran and is based on the true story of a French journalist who stumbled onto the story of an innocent woman who was executed after her husband accused her of infidelity.
According to Islamic law, apparently, when a husband accuses his wife of impropriety, the burden of proof is on her, and when you add in the tribalism of small-town men, the result is practically preordained. Unfortunately, the movie never tries to make a broader point -- for instance, contrasting the relative cosmopolitanism of Iran before the revolution with its backwardness after. Instead, director Cyrus Nowrasteh (a co-writer of the controversial TV movie "The Path to 9/11") offers a simple tale of martyrdom.
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