‘The Alchemist’ to go on air on iFilm

‘The Alchemist’ mini-series has been slated to go on air on iFilm English TV channel from May 24, at 23:00 GMT.

Directed by Mohammad-Reza Varzi, the 5-episode show will be on air every evening since Tuesday evening. Each part of the show will be repeated three times the next day after original screening respectively at 05:00, 11:00 and 17:00 (all GMT times).

‘The Alchemist’ is about Mohammad ibn Zakariyya Razi, One of the greatest men to ever walk the earth – a polymath, a physician, a philosopher and an alchemist –, known in the Western World as Rasis.

This great Persian polymath wrote pioneering books about smallpox and measles and discovered many chemicals including kerosene. But what he is most famed for is his discovery of alcohol which he called the sultan of all medicines.

Follow his journey as his life changes from being a merchant’s son to one of the most celebrated men in medical science on the show.

The cast list of the flick includes Jamshid Jahanzadeh, Fakhreddin Seddiq-Sharif and Changiz Vosouqi.

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