‘Kimia’ series screenwriter dies

Screenwriter of ifilm hit series ‘Kimia’ has passed away at the age of 65.

Massoud Behbahaninia, the screenwriter of several  TV series such as ‘Kimia’, died Thursday, June 5 due to a heart attack.

He was completing the screenplay for the series Silent Snowfall’. His writing credits include ‘Kimia’, ‘Detectives’, ‘Narges’ and ‘Red Soil’, among others.

Born in 1956, he graduated from the University of Tehran in the field of sociology and the Ferdows Garden Film Training Center in Screenwriting.

Kimia is the story of a woman’s life during extremely important events in Iran’s contemporary history. Kimia Parsa was a young girl living in the city of Khoramshahr during the reign of the country’s former king, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. We follow her as she experiences the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein’s war on the country and also the present day.

As she experiences some of the most tumultuous times in recent history, her life is ravaged by pain and sorrow. Still, she refuses to give up hope and carries on.

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