“Che” producer to sell tickets before completion

TEHRAN,Aug.11(MNA) -- The producer of “Che”, a film about the Iranian veteran Mostafa Chamran, bizarrely plans to sell tickets for the film before it is completed. “Special discounts will also be offered for group bookings,” Mehdi Karimi told on Friday. Booking for the film is scheduled to begin on August 15. More details will be announced on the film’s website the day before, he added. Director Ebrahim Hatamikia, the cast and crew are still in the town of Paveh, in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, to complete shooting the film, which has been in progress since July 9. “Che” will depict 48 hours of Chamran’s life on August 16 and 17, 1979. Fariborz Arabnia plays the role of Chamran in the film. Babak Hamidian, Merila Zarei, Saeid Rad, Esmaeil Soltanian and Amir-Reza Delavari are the other main members of the cast. The film will be produced under the auspices of the Farabi Cinematic Foundation, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Chamran was commander of several military operations in the warzones of Kordestan and Khuzestan regions during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. He was killed in a mortar attack in the Dehlaviyeh region near Ahvaz in 1981. He had completed his Ph.D. in electronics and plasma physics with excellent grades from the University of California at Berkeley.