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 "id": "screen/muhammad-rasul-allah-2015",
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 "slug": "muhammad-rasul-allah-2015",
 "label": {
  "en": "Muhammad: The Messenger of God",
  "ar": "محمد رسول الله"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيلم إيراني ملحمي لماجد مجيدي عن طفولة النبي في مكة؛ تظهر شخصيته من الخلف واليدين دون ملامح الوجه، وكان مقرراً أن يكون أول جزء من ثلاثية.",
  "en": "Majid Majidi's Iranian epic about the Prophet's childhood in Mecca; he is shown from behind and in silhouette, never his face. It was planned as the first part of a trilogy."
 },
 "stub": false,
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  "people",
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "prophets",
  "images-and-figural-art"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "primary",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "fa",
    "value": "محمد رسول‌الله",
    "kind": "original"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Muhammad: The Messenger of God",
    "kind": "release"
   },
   {
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "محمد رسول الله",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "2015",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "ir"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "fa"
   ]
  },
  "runtime_min": 178,
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "figure-without-face",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable",
   "note": "The boy Muhammad is played by an actor but the face is never shown."
  },
  "approach": "historical-drama",
  "sensitivity": "figurative-prophet",
  "reception": [
   {
    "kind": "objection",
    "by": "al-Azhar and Saudi scholars, reported in press coverage",
    "status": "debated",
    "note": "Calls to ban the film for depicting the Prophet, even without the face; objections reported in 2015–2016 coverage.",
    "sources": []
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q5957665",
   "imdb": "tt3921314",
   "elcinema": "2040168"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb",
   "source/elcinema"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 26,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "type": "about",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "period/pre-islamic-arabia",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alireza-shoja-nouri",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sareh-bayat",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mahdi-pakdel",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mina-sadati",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohsen-tanabandeh",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/rana-azadivar",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohammad-yaromtaghloo",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/najmeddin-shariati",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/majid-majidi",
   "type": "directed_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/majid-majidi",
   "type": "written_by",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "screen/qamar-bani-hashim-2008",
  "event/al-dawa-al-sirriyya",
  "event/fatrat-al-wahy",
  "event/ibrahim-visits-ismail-in-mecca",
  "event/isra-and-miraj",
  "event/sacrifice-of-ismail",
  "event/splitting-of-the-moon",
  "screen/al-risala-1976"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}