Iranian film 'Muhammad' to 'reclaim rightful image of Islam'

TEHRAN: Iran's most expensive movie, Muhammad, which chronicles the childhood of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), opened nationwide in Iran on Thursday, winning praise from early audiences.
Directed by Majid Majidi, the 171-minute, visually stunning film cost around $40 million (36 million euros), partly funded by the state, and took more than seven years to complete.
Majidi says the aim of his work, the first part of a trilogy, is to reclaim the rightful image of Islam, which he said extremists have distorted: “Unfortunately at this time the impression of Islam is of a radical, fanatical and violent religion, which is not what it's about,” he said in Montreal, where the film had its international premiere, hours after screening back home.
“The barbaric acts of terrorism conducted by terrorist groups under the guise of Islam are not related to Islam,” he said, alluding to beheadings and destruction of cultural treasures by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
“Islam is a religion of peace, friendship and love, and I tried to show this in the film," he added.
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