Iran premieres top-budget epic film 'Muhammad'
Iran's most expensive ever movie, "Muhammad", which chronicles the childhood of the Muslim prophet, opened nationwide on Thursday, winning praise from early audiences./ Directed by Majid Majidi, the 171-minute, visually stunning film cost around $40 million (35.7 million euros), partly funded by the state, and took more than seven years to complete. Majidi has said the aim of his work, the first part of a trilogy, is to reclaim the rightful image of Islam, which he said extremists have wrongly made violent. "Muhammad," which captures Saudi ...
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