Prophet Joseph | |
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Genre |
Religious Historic |
Created by |
Farajollah Salahshoor Jamal Shoorjeh |
Written by | Farajollah Salahshoor |
Screenplay by | Farajollah Salahshoor |
Story by | Drama, History, Religious |
Directed by | Farajollah Salahshoor |
Starring |
Mostafa Zamani Mahmoud Pak Niat Katayoun Riahi Jafar Dehghan Elham Hamidi Rahim Noroozi Leila Boloukat |
Theme music composer | Peyman Yazdanian |
Country of origin | Iran |
Original language(s) | Persian |
No. of episodes | 45 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Rasool Ahadi |
Editor(s) | Hossein Zandbaf |
Running time | Fridays at 22:00 |
Production company(s) | SimaFilmIdeh.ir |
Distributor | Serene Films |
Release | |
Original network | IRIB TV1 |
Original release | 27 December 2008 |
Prophet Joseph (Persian: یوسف پيامبر) is a 2008 Iranian television TV series directed by Farajollah Salahshoor, which tells the story of Prophet Joseph from the Quran and Islamic traditions. It is also set in the historical context of the Amarna period of ancient Egypt. They spent $2,000,000 for building cities and creating customs.
It was filmed in Persian but has been dubbed into Arabic in Al-Kawthar and there is also another version with English subtitles, which has and is currently being broadcast on IRIB.
In Pakistan, there is an Urdu dubbing available of this TV series. There is also an Azeri version for Azerbaijan.
Its Hindi-Urdu dubbed version named "Prophet Yousuf" is being telecast in India on Channel WIN from 19 June 2015. A Bengali dubbed version has been also telecast in SA TV of Bangladesh from 27th November 2016.
Prophet Joseph is a Persian-language Iranian mini-series originally broadcast in 2008, which tells the story of Joseph according to the Islamic tradition.
Prophet Joseph received generally positive reviews by Islamic world. The critical consensus is that the film promotes polygamy.
The director's daughter who grew up in a religious family criticized his father‘s work publicly, she believes that promotion of polygamy is planned by IRIB in Islamic Republic of Iran. (Iran TV.)