TEHRAN-The cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) will screen the 1964 political satire black comedy film “Dr. Strangelove” directed by Stanley Kubrick on Sunday.

Starring Peter Sellers in three roles, including the title character, the film satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

The full name of the movie is “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” but it is simply and more commonly as “Dr. Strangelove”. It is loosely based on the thriller novel “Red Alert” (1958) by Peter George, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern, Mehr reported.

The cast also includes George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed among others.

The story concerns an unhinged U.S. Air Force general who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President (Sellers), his advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force exchange officer (Sellers) as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 (following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviet Union and starting a nuclear war.

The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made and one of the greatest films of all time.  It received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Sellers. The film was also nominated for seven BAFTA Film Awards, winning Best Film From Any Source, Best British Film, and Best Art Direction, and it also won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

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