“The Story of Behnam”? to turn into script

TEHRAN, (SCIB) - ‘The Story of Behnam’, successful publication of Shahed Publishing House, is being turned into a film script on the request of Iranian film company ‘Sima Film’.

News ID: 46642

Date: 06 June 2007 - 07:35

“Sima Film is eager to incorporate new and innovative ideas into their productions. To realize this purpose, they are looking at Iranian contemporary literature of the past century.”? Mojtaba Shakeri, head of the office for research in narrative literature elucidated. “Davoud Amirian’s ‘The story of Behnam’ was turned into a script as part of the same attempt. The story was chosen because of its structure and content; and because It had the capacity to be translated into a cinematic language”? he continued. “The book is based on the biography of Behnam Mohammadi. It is a well-documented book with beautiful and clever humor.”? Shakeri commented. ‘The story of Behnam’ was initially published by Shahed in 3000 copies. It was re-published in 2006 and made available in the market at the price of Rls 14000.