ifilm English to air feature ‘Scout’

ifilm has scheduled to air Iranian feature ‘The Scout’ directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia on January 20, 2018.

During the war imposed on Iran by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a number of Iranian soldiers are trapped in an ambush and are on the verge of losing the area.

The film is the story of a scout who risks his life and passes through a route which is under heavy fire in order to find the soldiers and help them escape.

Mehrdad Soleimani, Ali-Reza Heidari, Gholam-Reza Ali-Akbari, Asghar Pour-Hajarian, Esmaeil Soltanian, Saeed Javanshir, Hamid-Reza Soltanian, Hossein Kiani, Hamid-Reza Charakchian, and Abdorrasoul Soltanian are among the cast.

Born in 1961, Hatamikia began his career with writing screenplays for short films about the eight-year Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s.

He directed his first feature film ‘Identity’ in 1986. He established himself as a director who addresses issues pertaining to the Iraq-Iran war and its aftermath with films such as ‘From Karkheh to Rhine’ and ‘The Glass Agency’.

‘The Scout’ is scheduled to go on air on Saturday 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).

MG/AI