iFilm English TV to air ‘The 23 People’

iFilm English TV Channel’s movie ‘The 23 People’ has been scheduled to be aired on Saturday.

Produced by Mojtaba Faravardeh and directed by Mehdi Jafari, the movie is based on ‘Those 23 Individuals’, the memoirs of Ahmad Yousefzadeh, one of the 23 volunteers who were held captive in Iraq.

To be aired on September 28, 2024, ‘The 23 People’ narrates the bravery, heroism, life and wartime experiences of the volunteers during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war.

The gravity of their selflessness for their country has been the reason for a number of authors and filmmakers to develop projects about them.

In 1983, a group of teenage soldiers who had enrolled to defend their homeland got arrested by Iraqi army.

Attempting to show how youngsters were unwillingly sent to the war, Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president of the time, put on a show and masqueraded as a defender of people’s rights giving the 23 flowers and promising them to be freed soon.

His plans went in vein as the 23 heroes of our story went on a hunger strike which cost them eight years of incarceration.

Shooting for ‘The 23 People’ took place in the capital city of Tehran and the southern Iranian city of Abadan in a three-month course.

The project was financed by Tehran-based Owj Arts and Media Organization which produces revolutionary works in art and cinema.

‘The 23 People’ received a largely positive reaction from the audiences at the 37th Fajr Film Festival, where it also grabbed six National Will Manifestation awards.

It has been named the film of the year by Iranian National Commission for UNESCO.

The cast list of the movie includes Majid Potki, Reza Nouri, Abdolhalim Taqallobi, Malek Mohammadabadi, Abolfazl Amiri, Hossein Pourideh, Saeed Albo-Ebadi, and Mohammad Rashno.

‘The 23 People’, made in 2019, is scheduled to go on air at 22:00 GMT.

iFilm English will also repeat the movie the next day at 04:00, 10:00 and 16:00.

iFilm English TV published an exclusive report on the movie. Click here to watch the report.