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‘Salman the Persian’ returns to northern Iran for new filming phase
The series, which began production nearly five years ago, features over 1,000 main actors and 4,000 extras. It is expected to continue filming in Shahroud until October before moving to Tehran’s Ghazali Cinema Town, IRNA wrote.
As the largest TV project in Iran’s history, the series will undergo technical work for at least another five years.
‘Salman the Persian,’ produced by Hossein Taheri and written by Mirbagheri, began filming in Kerman in December 2019 and has also filmed in Qeshm, Jolfa, and various cinema towns. The series covers three historical periods: Sassanid Iran, the Byzantine Empire, and early Islamic
Hejaz.
The cast includes Farhad Aslani, Alireza Shoja Nouri, Dariush Farhang, Mohammad Reza Hedayati, Behnaz Tavakoli, Ehteram Boroumand, Ramona Shah, Ali Dehkordi, the late Changiz Jalilvand, Mehdi Faghih, Mohammad Javad Jafarpoor, and Alireza Mehran, along with several international actors from Armenia, Greece, Morocco, and Tunisia, and about 1,500 local theater actors.