Things to get stormy in ‘In the Eye of the Storm’: iFilm cut

In the upcoming episode of the Iranian series ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, the innocent lives of Bijan Irani and Leili will turn upside down with the brutal flames of war.

Living the normal life of two little kids, Bijan and Leili spend hours in the serene jungles of Gilan discovering the world as it is in the woods and having no cares of the complicated world of the adults.

The two are not fully aware of the revolutionary acts that are happening around them and that’s what makes it harder for them to see their fathers under the fire of the invaders who have taken their land by force.

How will their lives proceed from now on in the upcoming episodes of the show?

Produced by Masoud Jafari-Jozani, Abbas Akbari, Habibollah Kasehsaz and Reza Ansarian, and directed by Jafari-Jozani, ‘In the Eye of the Storm’ spans the period of history between the revolutionary movements began by Iran's national hero Mirza Koochak Khan in the early twentieth century, to the liberation of Khoramshahr, during the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s.

The story is told through the trials and tribulations, love and relationships of one Iranian family.

The cast list of the flick includes Parsa Pirouzfar, Sima Tirandaz, Jahangir Almasi, Laleh Eskandari, Akbar Abdi, Mostafa Zamani, Sam Derakhshani, Gelareh Abbasi, Saeed Rad, Kambiz Dirbaz, Saeed Nikpour, Mohammad-Reza Hedayati, Houman Seyyedi, and Fakhreddin Seddiq-Sharif.

The long list of the cast goes on with Reza Shafiee-Jam, Arsalan Qasemi, the late Mahchehreh Khalili, Niyousha Zeyghami, Mahmoud Pakniyyat, Shahram Qaedi, Farhad Besharati, Sahar Jafari-Jozani, Tannaz Tabatabaee, and Fariba Motekhasses.

‘In the Eye of the Storm’, produced in 2003-2008 broadcasts daily at 22:00 GMT. Besides, each episode will be aired the following day at 04:00, 10:00, and 16:00.

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