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Iranian
film director Kia-Rostami stages Karbala passion play in
Rome
A passion play based on Karbala
incidents and the campaigns launched by Muslim warriors at
the early years of Islam, which was directed by the renowned
film director Abbas Kia-Rostami, was staged in the Italian
capital city of Rome on Wednesday evening, IRNA reported.
The play which was organized by
Rome Theater is performed in Rome Oriental Theater and will
be staged for 24 more days.
Kia-Rostami's passion play is
four hour long and its cast includes 15 Iranian actors, two
children and several horses.
Given Kia-Rostami's fame in
Rome, a variety of cultural, artistic and university figures
attended the inauguration of the performance.
Kia-rostami told IRNA that his
incentive in staging the play is his great enchantment to
theater since childhood and expressed his wish to introduce
the traditional Iranian arts and observe the reaction of
Italians to such historical events.
He stressed that such
traditional plays with a minimum background of 1,000 years
are a part of Iran's history.
Concerning his approach towards
cinema and theater, he said that the two fields are quite
different. He noted, "One might say that theater is
similar to a fresh fish, while cinema can be assimilated to
canned sea-food.