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08-02-2008, 06:33 PM
Iran plans to release first feature film about the life of the Late Imam Khomeini, the cleric who led the Islamichttp://www.presstv.com/photo/20080703/pirhayati20080703185119546.jpg Revolution in 1979.
The film, Farzand-e Sobh (The Morning's Child) will be released in Iran in February during the official celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
The movie, one of the most impressive film projects in Iran, is directed by veteran Iranian director Behrouz Afkhami. He said the project was suggested by the Compilation and Publication Institute of the Late Imam Khomeini's Works.
The film focuses on Khomeini's childhood in his parents' home in the central city of Khomein, with a few glimpses of him returning from seminary studies in Arak.
It also covers Khomeini's sermons railing against the rule of the Shah ( Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in the 1960s, which led to his arrest by the notorious SAVAK secret police and his subsequent exile from Iran.
The film comes at a time when a large percentage of Iran's predominantly youthful population was not born when the Imam was alive.
"More than 70 percent of the population has changed since the Revolution and do not have any tangible memory of Imam Khomeini,” Afkhami noted.
The veteran director stressed that the film has the full blessing of the Late Leader's grandson, Ayatollah Hassan Khomeini. Afkhami added that Ayatollah Hassan Khomeini helped him all the way.
"This is a mood film - a film that you do not see but you feel," Afkhami concluded.
am looking forward to see the film as Imam khomeinis charechter was one of the greatest and the rarest
The film, Farzand-e Sobh (The Morning's Child) will be released in Iran in February during the official celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
The movie, one of the most impressive film projects in Iran, is directed by veteran Iranian director Behrouz Afkhami. He said the project was suggested by the Compilation and Publication Institute of the Late Imam Khomeini's Works.
The film focuses on Khomeini's childhood in his parents' home in the central city of Khomein, with a few glimpses of him returning from seminary studies in Arak.
It also covers Khomeini's sermons railing against the rule of the Shah ( Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in the 1960s, which led to his arrest by the notorious SAVAK secret police and his subsequent exile from Iran.
The film comes at a time when a large percentage of Iran's predominantly youthful population was not born when the Imam was alive.
"More than 70 percent of the population has changed since the Revolution and do not have any tangible memory of Imam Khomeini,” Afkhami noted.
The veteran director stressed that the film has the full blessing of the Late Leader's grandson, Ayatollah Hassan Khomeini. Afkhami added that Ayatollah Hassan Khomeini helped him all the way.
"This is a mood film - a film that you do not see but you feel," Afkhami concluded.
am looking forward to see the film as Imam khomeinis charechter was one of the greatest and the rarest