Haqiqatdoust plays in 'Silence of Sea'

Iranian actor Shahram Haqiqatdoust has gone on stage in the play 'The Silence of the Sea'.

Being Performed in Tehran's Iranshahr theater complex and directed by Nima Dehqan, the play is an adaptation from French novelist Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller's 'The Silence of the Sea'.

The novel, written during the summer of 1941 and published in early 1942, is the story of how an old man and his niece show resistance against the German occupiers by not speaking to the officer, who is occupying their house.

The German officer is a former composer, dreaming of brotherhood between the French and German nations, deluded by the Nazi propaganda of that period.

He is disillusioned when he realizes the real goal of the German army is not to build but to ruin and to exploit. He then chooses to leave France to fight on the Eastern Front, cryptically declaring he is "off to Hell."

Alireza Ara and Khatereh Asadi are the other actors of the play.

Born in 1972, Haqiqatdoust studied Theatre at Islamic Azad University and started his career with stage-acting in 1994. He quickly became recognized as an influential theatre, TV and cinema actor.

His first small screen appearance was the series ‘Love of the Blessed’ in 1995 and his movie debut was a small role in Mehrjoui’s ‘Pear Tree’ in 1997.

He later joined the cast of the social drama ‘Story of a City’ and his performance led to further collaboration with director Jafari in his next project ‘The Red Line’ which brought him fame.

In the years that followed his success in TV, he took roles in movies such as ‘Greed’, ‘Crime’, ‘How Much for You to Cry?’, ‘Mouse’, ‘Morning of the Seventh Day’, ‘Kalashnikov’, and ‘Yellow’.

Among the series he has acted in are ‘The Story of a City’, ‘Spellbound’, ‘The Rise of Mokhtar’, ‘Passion to Fly’ and ‘Goodbye Child’.

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