Zogheib studied intensely to prepare for the film.
Seyyed Hassan Khomeini and the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization gave him access to over 3000 photos of Imam Khomeini.
He said that it took two years to make the documentary, which is scheduled to be broadcast by the Lebanese Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television network in winter.
The Lebanese filmmaker said the documentary begins with the birth of Imam Khomeini, and then moves on to his studies at the Qom Seminary, where he attained the title of mujtahid (interpreter of Islamic law), his struggle against the monarchist regime, the 15th of Khordad uprising, his exile to Najaf, his life in Iraq, his exile to France, his return to Iran and the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and his death.
Zogheib interviewed over 50 Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, and French cultural and political figures for his documentary, including Egyptian scholar Fahmi Hoveidi, Talal Salman of the Lebanese daily As-Safir, and Syrian writer Emad Mostafa.
Zogheib has also produced the first documentary on the life of Shia leader Imam Musa Sadr, the founder of the Amal movement in Lebanon.
The five-part documentary covers Imam Sadr’s studies in the seminary and at Tehran University, his immigration to Lebanon, and his disappearance in Libya in 1978.
The Lebanese filmmaker interviewed numerous religious and political personalities for the film.
He lamented the fact that the world is not more familiar with the deep ideology of Imam Musa Sadr.
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