Javad Ezzati joins cast of Majidi’s film

Iranian actor Mohammad-Javad Ezzati has joined the cast of ‘The Sun’ (Khorshid), the latest movie of Majid Majidi, the director of ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’.

‘The Sun’, Majidi’s tenth film, is about the working children. The film is written by Majidi and Nima Javidi.

The shooting of the movie has begun in southern Tehran from two weeks ago and it is expected to take two months.

Majidi is one of Iran’s prominent filmmakers. His movie ‘Children of Heaven’ was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the late 1990s.

His movies, including ‘The Color of Heaven’ (1999) and ‘Baran’ (2000), attended various international film festivals and garnered many awards.

SQ/MG