Battle of the Kings: Rostam & Sohrab (2013)

Directed by

Kianoush Dalvand

Genre

animated film, children's film

Country

Iran

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated film adapts the story from the Persian epic the Shahnameh. It focuses on the hero Rostam and his son Sohrab in a tale of tragedy.

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What happens

The tragedy of "Rostam and Sohrab" forms part of the Shahnameh, the 10th-century Persian epic by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. It tells the tragic story of the heroes Rostam and his son, Sohrab. The story of Rostam and Sohrab is just one small portion of the vast compilation of stories that make up the Iranian national epic, commonly known as the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings. The Shahnameh traces the history of the Iranian nation from the first mythological shah, Kiumars, down to the defeat and death of the last Sasanian emperor, Yazdegerd III, at the hands of the Arab armies of Islam in the middle of the seventh century AD. The events narrated in the first two-thirds of the Shahnameh—tales both heroic and romantic—belong to a mythical or legendary time. In the last third, these events are set in historical times, and stories are introduced from the biography of Alexander the Great and from the history of the Parthian and Sasanian dynasties (247 BC – AD 651). But the style of presentation does not change: historical figures and events are presented as the stuff of myth and legend (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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