''I Want to Live'' () is a 2021 Iranian television series written by Majid Molaee, Pouya Saeedi, and Pouria Kakavand and directed by Shahram Shah Hosseini, starring Sahar Dolatshahi,

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and Pedram Sharifi. Each episode was released on Filimo.

Synopsis

Homa ( Sahar Dolatshahi) and Nader ( Pedram Sharifi), two teachers, are about to get married. On the night of Homa's father's birthday (

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), police officers come to their house and find drugs in her father's car. The officers arrest her father and take him to the police station. Homa goes there and realizes that the sentence for possessing this amount of drugs is death penalty. She is introduced to a lawyer who has a reputation for saving people with difficult cases. Home goes with Nader to see the lawyer, Amir Shaygan (

). After meeting with the lawyer, He asks Nader to come to the place he says for one night and talk to him about the condition of accepting their case. After Nader goes to the place, Amir tells him that if he leaves Homa and she marries him, he will accept the case.

Cast

* Sahar Dolatshahi as Homa Haghi *

as Amir Shaygan * Pedram Sharifi as Nader Sarmad *

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as Kaveh *

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as Shiva Mastour *

as Homayoun Haghi * Azadeh Samadi as Zohreh Afshar * Amir Norouzi as Yahya Farrokhi * Mehdi Hosseininia as Meftah *

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as Bahman Dashti * Farid Sajjadi Hosseini as Afshar, Zohreh's father * Afsaneh Chehreh Azad as Fakhri, Homayoun's wife and Homa's mother * Ezatollah Mehravaran * Nahid Moslemi * Mehdi Sabaghi * Mohmmad Reza Maleki * Maedeh Tahmasebi * Bahram Ebrahimi * Roya Javidnia * Nafiseh Zare * Bahareh Kianafshar * Mani Shah Hosseini * Shahram Shah Hosseini * Salman Khati * Ali Milani

Soundtrack

All of the tracks are performed by Homayoun Shajarian.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=14117360 2021 Iranian television series debuts