ifilm to fire ‘Man with Thousand Faces’

ifilm English channel has set to air the final episode for ‘The Man with a Thousand Faces’ series on Thursday.

The series finale, produced by Majid as well as Hamid Aqagolian and directed by Mehran Modiri, will be aired on April 16, 2020.

Expressing social themes with comic actions, the series is about a man who experiences awkward situations several times because he is mistaken for other people, more often than not the famous ones. Now he must explain himself to a judge as he is arrested for impersonation.

The series is partly aimed at culture building. It criticizes negative phenomena and explores their social as well as psychological backgrounds.

It also emphasizes that people who fabricate titles for themselves and are incapable of handling the pertinent jobs, are not necessarily ill-natured. They might even lack ill wish. What brings them to the fore is people’s ignorance or mistaking such persons for others as well as praising them unnecessarily and baselessly. Such behaviors further stabilize wrong persons in wrong positions.

For example, anecdotes about colonel Ghaffari, narrated by a 48-month-in draftee, leads to Shastchi finally turning into a violent person in charge of the police station in the neighborhood.

However, the screenplay emphasizes that he simply wanted to improve the neighborhood, and his only fault was not knowing how to do so. That is why he detained dozens of the people in the neighborhood and put them behind bars. Even after coming to realize his mistake, Shastchi insists on it at any cost.

The series cast list includes the director, Saeed Pirdoust, Falamak Joneidi, Siamak Ansari, Shaqayeq Dehqan, Roshanak Ajamian, Pejman Bazeghi, and Alireza Khamseh.

The long cast list goes on with Elika Abdolrazzaqi, Parviz Fallahipour, Reza Feyz-Norouzi, Soroush Sehhat, Bahareh Rahnama, Parastou Golestani, and Akram Mohammadi.

‘The Man with a Thousand Faces’, produced in 2008, will be replaced with the series ‘Bad Days Pass’ made by Saeed Aqakhani.

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