‘A Hero’ Star Amir Jadidi To Play Celebrity Tennis Player Mansour Bahrami In Bio-Pic: France TV Distribution Boards Sales – Cannes Market
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has acquired world sales rights for Romuald Boulanger’s upcoming bio-pic Mansour, capturing the journey of celebrity tennis player Mansour Bahrami’s from post-Revolutionary Iran, to exile and poverty in France, and then fame on the international circuit.
Iranian actor Amir Jadidi, who is best known internationally for his lead performance in Asghar Farhadi’s 2021 Cannes Grand Prix winner and Oscar-nominated drama A Hero, will play Bahrami.
Romuald Boulanger directs and produces under the banner of his Paris and L.A.-based company R-Lines Productions (On the Line, Like Me, Haters) with UK-based Unconditional Pictures.
Unconditional Pictures’s co-founder and co-head Dawn McDaniel wrote the screenplay with Philippe de Lyon taking co-writing credits Iran-born Bahrami, 68, is a popular figure on the international tennis tournament circuit for his entertaining playing style and extraordinary life story.
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