First part of Iran comedy ‘Millipede’ enters home market

The first part of Iranian comedy ‘Millipede’ has entered the domestic market of home entertainment.

The film’s director Abolhassan Davoudi recently announced that the film has entered the home market in two parts because of the long duration of the original version. Producers have decided to publish ‘Millipede’ in two 100-minute parts.

The film that went on the silver screen in a 2-hour version is now in the home market in an extended 3.5-hour version.

The new offering of Davoudi grabbed the audience big time just a few days after public screening.

The film’s gross beat two Iranian box-office top titles of all time – ‘Sperm Whale 2’ by Saman Moqaddam and Manouchehr Hadi’s ‘Wing Mirror’ – bagging some 400,000,000,000 Rials at the end of its screening season.

In the film, a criminal named Reza finds out that a rich woman who is a doctor at a war veterans hospital vows to marry a veteran.

Reza is an amputee without a leg, so he is willing to marry the doctor. However, a group of fighters who kill the veterans take him hostage.

Actors such as Mehran Ahmadi, Reza Attaran, Sara Bahrami, Mohammad-Javad Ezzati, Sepand Amir-Soleymani, Naeemeh Nezamdoust, Shohreh Lorestani and Omid Rouhani are among the cast.

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