The movie, produced by Mehdi Davari and written as well as directed by Pouriya Azarbayjani, reviews a story set in some years after the Iraq-Iran war.
The film is about 175 Iranian divers, most of whom are believed to have been buried alive in scattered mass graves in Iraq during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war.
It is narrated by a veteran soldier, Younes, when he goes to recover the bodies of war victims and starts recounting his war memories after 27 years.
The cast list of the movie includes Saeed Aqakhani, Tannaz Tabatabaee, Mehrdad Seddiqian, Omid Rouhani, Pantea Panahiha, Hossein Soleimani, Kazem Sayyahi, and Ali Shademan.
‘Arvand’ (2015), winner of the Best War and Peace Film award at the Feature Film Category of the 9th Jaipur International Film Festival in India, is scheduled to go on air at 22:00 GMT.
ifilm English will also repeat the movie the next day at 04:00, 10:00 and 16:00 (all GMT times).
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