TEHRAN -- Greek actress Christina Sotiriou, who is featuring in the Iranian TV series ‘Salman Farsi’, has termed the Iranian cinema industry as surprising and very good.
Sotiriou shared her experience of presenting in Iran and playing a role in the Iranian TV series “Salman Farsi” during an interview with IRNA on Saturday.
Referring to the experience of working with Davoud Mirbagheri, one of the Iranian most eminent directors, she said, “It was a great experience. He is a great director and a great person. He helped me a lot because it was after two years that I graduated from my drama school, so I did not have much experience in the cinema industry. But he helped me a lot and I learned many things from him, like acting in front of the camera. I am grateful for working with him because we also had very good communication during filming. Sometimes I could understand what he wanted for me to perform for his expressions and it was really a good collaboration.”
She added that “from my experience in ‘Salman Farsi’, I was surprised by the way they are working. A lot of people, around one hundred people, work behind the cameras. I was really excited to work on projects like this. I knew about Iranian cinema and the quality of it. They have great artists. But after I collaborated on this project, I watched many Iranian films and they are artistically very good.”
The project is very well organized, so “we did not have any problems even if there were so many people” in the project, Sotiriou noted.
By describing the ‘Salman Farsi’ series as a world-class series, she expressed hope that the European market will buy this project, because there are many actors from other countries that will draw attention from other markets too, not only from Iran.
Mirbagheri started shooting “Salman the Persian” in the deserts of Kerman province in late December 2019.
The story of the series is narrated over three seasons starting with ancient Iran, followed by the Byzantine Empire, and finally early Islam.