Edoardo Agnelli’s life at Mehr Hall

The show "Edoardo" is  based on a story about the life of Edoardo Agnelli  that  is written by Raheel Sarhangi and directed by Abolfazl Ashrab .

Edoardo Agnelli was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat and of Marella Agnelli. He converted to Islam when he was living in New York City, and changed his name to "Mahdi". In mid-November 2000, he was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin.

Edoardo Agnelli converted to Sunni Islam in an Islamic center in New York where he was named "Hisham Aziz".Then he met Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran and was reported to have converted to Shia Islam. According to Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh, Agnelli recited his shahada in-front of Fakhroddein Hejazi and became a Shia Muslim and changed his name to Mahdi. He said, "One day while I was in New York, I was walking in a library and Quran caught my glimpse. I was curious about what was in it. I started reading it in English and I felt that those words were holy words and cannot be the words of men. I was really touched and borrowed the book and studied it further and I felt like I was understanding it and I believed it."

 

Giuseppe Puppo, an Italian journalist and writer, published a book about Angelli's death in 2009, using interviews and unpublished testimonies. Puppo regards some of the points as inconsistencies and oddities: the absence of the bodyguards of Edoardo Agnelli; the interval of two hours between leaving home and arriving on the Fossano viaduct; the cameras of Edoardo Agnelli, whose images have never been released; the telephone traffic on the two phones; the total absence of witnesses along a road section which recorded at least eight cars per minute at that time; the lack of fingerprints on the car; the hurried burial without a proper autopsy.

 

 The crew: Sajad Yari (Director Advisor), Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh (Stage and Light Designer), Alireza Khodamoradi (Poster and Brochure Designer), Raheel Sarhangi (Costume and Makeup Designer), Advertising (Mohammad Reza Eshrati), Sina Sobhi (Stage Manager) , Mahyar Derakhshan and Arefeh Eshrat (stage assistant), Dina Babaei (photographer) and Fatemeh Hosseini (light and sound operator)

 

 

The Cast: Amir Hossein Ensafi, Neda Asghari, Reza Meraji, Mohsen Ghasri, Amir Mohammad Ensafi, Niloufar Sayari, Morteza Deldadeh, Raheel Sarhangi, Mehdi Mazdarani, Hanieh Rahgozar, Sina Sobhi, Pejman Sarmikhah and Mahyar Barkhordari