'Dream of Sohrab' to premier soon

Iranian biopic 'Dream of Sohrab' by Ali Qavitan is to get to public screening pretty soon.

Qavitan revealed to local media that shooting for ‘Dream of Sohrab’ has recently ended and the production is currently going through final editing touches by Mehdi Hosseini-Vand.

“After the editing is done, the film will be delivered to laboratory to get color-correction," he added.

He then continued that, “Behzad Abdi is in charge of the film music score collaborating with Behrouz Shahamat who is involved with the sound mixing of the project.”

The director also mentioned that ‘Dream of Sohrab’ will be ready for public screening as of the end of June; and right after the screening permission is received, the movie will be screened in cinema halls across the country.  

Filming the cinematic project kicked off in early July 2018.

'Dream of Sohrab' is the name of the biographical film that will dramatize life story of the leading Persian modern poet and painter.

Notable among the cast are Mehdi Soltani, Bahareh Kian-Afshar, Laleh Eskandari, Tarlan Parvaneh and Abolfazl Miri.

Ali Qavitan has also appeared as the role of Sohrab in his feature film.

Sepehri who is a famous Iranian poet in modern poetry departed this life in 1980.

His works have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish and Russian.

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