‘Checkered Paper’ shooting to kick off

The shooting for Iranian movie ‘Checkered Paper’ is scheduled to kick off.

Directed by Behrouz Afkhami, the shooting for the movie will start in a few days.

Also produced by Afkhami, some scenes of the film are to be captured in the central neighborhoods of Tehran.

‘Checkered Paper’ is a cinematic collection made up of a few police films which will begin filming its first phase in August.

Mehdi Zaminpardaz, the film’s main character, will be starring as a criminal prosecutor.

Set in 1980s Tehran, Afkhami has written the film’s screenplay based on true stories from a legal prosecutor’s memoirs.

Upon retirement, the prosecutor plans on publishing his memoirs as a novel, part of which has been edited by Afkhami and will be featured in his film.

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