ifilm to start airing ‘Imam Ali (AS)’

ifilm’s new series, ‘Imam Ali (AS)’, has been scheduled to go on air from May 31, 2017.

The series produced by Mohammad Beikzadeh and directed by Davoud Mir-Baqeri, is a religious-historical drama on Imam Ali’s life.

The epic series has focused on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib. It covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his martyrdom in Kufa, Iraq.

The series cast list includes Daryoush Arjmand, Vishka Asayesh, Sirous Gorjestani, Ali-Asghar Hemmat, Parviz Parastoui, Behzad Farahani, Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia, Mehdi Fathi, Atash Taqipour, and Abbas Amiri-Moqaddam.

The long list of popular stars goes on with Azita Hajiyan, Akbar Abdi, Fakhri Khorvash, Farideh Sepah-Mansour, Davoud Rashidi, Saeed Nikpour, Enayat Bakhshi, Reza Karam-Rezaei, Parvaneh Masoumi, Hossein Panahi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, and Shohreh Lorestani.

‘Imam Ali (AS)’, made in 1997, is scheduled to be the replacement for the series ‘The Bounced Check’, which will be aired daily at 23:00 GMT (03:30 Tehran time).

ifilm English will also repeat each episode of the drama the next day at 05:00, 11:00 and 17:00 (all GMT times). The series is comprised of 22 episodes.

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