Dreams to shatter in ‘After the Rain’

The 6th episode of iFilm period drama ‘After the Rain’ is to narrate the desperate, helpless feeling of Shahrbanou’s shattered dreams.

As Marzieh and Masoud finally succeed to convince their uncle to take them where their mother took her roots, they listen to the first chapter of their grandmother’s miserable life.

She was a simple beautiful rural girl, whose innocent world suddenly turned upside down when others decided to marry her off to an elder wealthy man in the village.

This matrimony is the beginning of loads of misery that the young woman has to bear.

Watch the show daily at 20:00 GMT. Each episode will be repeated the next day at 01:00, 07:00 and 12:00.

Directed by Saeed Soltani, the series narrates the story of serfdom during a time in Iran’s history. A couple is killed in an accident, but their children believe that somebody had tampered with their car brake.

They try to find out more about their family and discover the reason for their parents’ death by reviewing the diary of their grandmother, Shahrbanou.

Notable in the series cast list are Sorayya Qasemi, Jahangir Almasi, Shahab Hosseini, Mahmoud Pakniyyat, Behzad Farahani, Marjan Mohtasham, Kioumars Malek-Motiee, and Saba Kamali.

Katayoun Riahi, Jamileh Sheykhi, Rahim Norouzi, Ramin Parchami, Mahvash Sabrkon, Pourandokht Mohaymen, Fatemeh Taheri, Fath-Ali Oveisi, Mahnaz Ansarian, Mohammad-Hadi Qomeyshi, and Nadia Deldar-Golchin are also on the cast list.

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