Ravayat-e Fath

Ravayat-e Fath
روایت فتح
The logo of Ravayat-e Fath TV series designed by Reza Abedini.
Genre War documentary film
Directed by Morteza Avini
Narrated by Morteza Avini
Country of origin Iran
Original language(s) Persian
No. of seasons 5
Production
Production location(s) Iran–Iraq War front lines
Release
Original network IRIB 1
Chronology
Preceded by The Truth (Persian: حقیقت‎ Haghighat)

Ravayat-e Fath[1] (Persian: روایت فتح‎), variously translated as The Chronicles of Victory, The Tales of Victory, The Narrative of Victory, The Narration of Victory, The Story of Victory, and Witness to Glory, was a war documentary TV series directed by Morteza Aviny and filmed on the front-lines of the Iran–Iraq War.[2] It is one of the most famous works of Avini, and one of the first and most important war documentary films in the history of Iranian cinema. The TV series presents witnessing discourse through footage of front-line sacrifices set against commentary by Avini.[3] The documentary film "literally brought the details of war into people's living rooms every night".[4] The series had a mystic and spiritual theme.[5]

After the Iraqi invasion of Iran, Avini went to the front-line, founded Jihad TV Unit (گروه تلویزیونی جهاد), and trained its crewmembers ideologically and technically. At least seven Jihad TV crewmembers, including Avini himself, were killed in the process of making the series. Jihad TV continued to operate as a production unit for years after the war and after Avini. According to Hamid Naficy, what made the documentary series stand out was "its promotion of multiple sacred subjectivities on behalf of the warriors who were filmed, the cameramen who filmed them, and the spectators who watched them".[6]

Seasons

Season One, consisted of 11 episodes, is about Operation Dawn 8 (First Battle of al-Faw).

Season Two depicts Battle of Mehran and Operation Karbala 1.

Season Three depicts Operation Karbala 5, filmed in Shalamcheh. Three crewmembers were killed in the process of filming this season.

Season Four, beside covering the front-line events, depicts the political situation in 1987, including the American activities in the Persian Gulf and the Mecca incident.

Season Five was broadcast after the end of the war, and depicts other wartime Iranian operations including Operation Karbala 10, Operation Mersad, and several operations in the Western Front.[7]

See also

  • Revayat-e Fath Publication Institute

References

  1. ↑ Also transliterated as Revayat-e Fath, Ravayat-i Fath, Rivayat-i Fath, Ravayate Fath, and Revayate Fath.
  2. ↑ Aitken, Ian (2013). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. p. 411a. ISBN 9780415596428.
  3. ↑ Rastegar, Kamran (2015). Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. Oxford University Press. p. 213. ISBN 9780199390175.
  4. ↑ Peterson, Scott (2010). Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines. Simon and Schuster. p. 96. ISBN 9781416597391.
  5. ↑ "ایرنا - روایت فتح؛ اثری ماندگار از سید شهیدان اهل قلم".
  6. ↑ Naficy, Hamid (2012). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010. Duke University Press. pp. 19–21. ISBN 9780822348788.
  7. ↑ "فیلم‌های روایت فتح شهید مرتضی آوینی". Aviny. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

Further reading

  • Varzi, Roxanne (2006). "Shooting Soldiers, Shooting Film: The Cinema of the Iranian Sacred Defense". Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822337218.
  • Payam Zinalabedini, "The investigation into components of Spiritual Intelligence (SI) and its impact on production of Ravayat-E- Fath Documentary Movies by spiritual leadership of Martyr Avini", International Conference on Economics, Accounting, Management and Social Sciences


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