Italian cameraman Vittorio Storaro to film Majidi’s “Muhammad (S)”
Vittorio Storaro, the three-time Academy Award winning Italian director of photography whose credits include “Apocalypse Now”, is taking the helm of filming the great Iranian project “Muhammad (S)”.
The film by director Majid Majidi narrates the childhood of Prophet Muhammad (S) up to the age of twelve, well before the advent of his prophecy and targets an international audience of all faiths.
Vittorio Storaro whose other credits include “Reds” and “The Last Emperor” arrived in Tehran on September 29, the Persian service of Fars announced on Saturday.
Aleksandar Denic, the set decorator of Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce “Underground” is also due to collaborate in this project.
The first draft of the screenplay was co-authored by Majidi and Kambuzia Partovi, the writer of the celebrated film “Border Café”.
The historical documents were compiled with the aid of scholars, historians and clerics from various countries including Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria over a period of a year.
Produced by Mohammad-Mehdi Heidarian, the film will be released at least in Persian, Arabic and English and will be shot in Iran and probably in two other countries.
Photo: Italian cameraman Vittorio Storaro holds an Oscar he received for “The Last Emperor” during the 60th Annual Academy Awards in 1987.
Source: tehrantimes.com
