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Iranian, Polish producers to bring “Winter Train” back on track
TEHRAN,Dec.29(MNA) -- Iran’s Farabi Cinematic Foundation (FCF) and a Polish producer have finally reached a consensus on making “Winter Train”, an Iran-Poland joint movie project on Polish immigration to Iran during World War II.
“The result of my latest trip to Poland, during which FCF Deputy Director Hassan Najjartian accompanied me, was very satisfactory and promising,” Khosro Sinaii, who will direct the project, told the Persian service of MNA on Friday.
Based on a contract signed during the trip, the scenes, which will be shot in Iran, will be produced by FCF and the scenes that are scheduled to be taken in Poland will be financed by the Polish producer, he said.
No name was mentioned for the Polish side of the project.
Shooting is scheduled to commence in August 2013 in Iran and afterwards it will be continued in Poland.
“Polish cinematographer Arthur Reinhart will shoot the movie. He is one of the people I have always been eager to work with,” Sinaii stated.
He also said that he wished to have 88-year-old Iranian actor Ezzatollah Entezami in his cast and added that Polish actress Anna Polony will likely star opposite Entezami.
“However, everything depends on the condition of his health,” Sinaii noted.
The plan to make “Winter Train” was announced in November 2010 after Polish Cultural and Press Attaché Radoslaw Pytlak and FCF Director Ahmad Mir-Alaii signed an agreement to produce the film.
However, the plan was postponed afterwards due to a lack of funds.
In 2008, Sinaii received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland for his “The Lost Requiem”, a documentary about the Polish wartime exodus from the Soviet labor camps of Siberia to Iran.
Sinaii also made “Malgorzata”, a telefilm about the story of the Polish exodus to Iran in 1942 during World War II.
World War II was devastating to Poland, as not only was the country’s Jewish population almost totally annihilated during the war, but also millions of non-Jewish Poles died as well. A great number of the population was forced to flee from their homeland to seek refuge in other countries around the world including Iran.