A powerful Iranian general’s son is sent to Berlin to study, but when his ideas begin fueling unrest back home, he’s thrust into a collision with his father—forcing both men to confront the system they built and the future it creates.

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Set between Tehran and Berlin, THE GENERAL’S SON follows Reza Shirazi, the son of a powerful IRGC general, who is sent abroad to study engineering but instead begins questioning the very system his father helped build. What starts as academic inquiry evolves into a growing public voice, as Reza’s writings gain international attention and quietly influence unrest back home.

Inside Iran, his father, General Davar Shirazi, works to maintain control within a bureaucracy increasingly disconnected from reality—where small ideological victories mask a system beginning to fracture. As Reza’s ideas ripple back into Tehran, they trigger consequences neither of them can fully anticipate, forcing Davar into an impossible position: uphold the system he believes in, or protect the son who is unknowingly dismantling it.

As protests grow and pressure mounts on both sides, father and son are drawn into a collision shaped not by ideology, but by inheritance—revealing how belief systems are passed down, challenged, and ultimately reshaped at a cost neither of them is prepared to face.

THE GENERAL'S SON