[OT] Movie about parthians?

[The Persian Cataphract]

Actually, no. That cataphract is enacted from a blogger/author Chris Winstanley from the website www.remountdepot.com, which expired a while ago; as far as I can recall it, it was meant to be a Sassanid cataphract, in spite of several quirks in the armour. Sassanians did use spiked helmets, a fact that was to emerge during the great Turkic migrations in the eastern steppes to which this design usually is accorded.

The armour has a few quirks as well; the chausses of chain-maille are a clearly original construct which is rather used as a replacement material. See how he does not bear any laminated armour? I think most of the cost went to the expenses of making the barding, which by far is the most impressive part of the enactment. The coat is clearly of the Parthian-style, and the long pantaloons is something rather representative of late-Parthian/early-Sassanian military dress-code, until long surcoats, hard riding boots with gaiters and so forth would against gain dominance.

"Muslim Cataphract" is not a valid term and has no specification to it; the ancient Iranian knighthood died with the decline of Zoroastrianism, and only sporadically prevailed in isolated areas until it was reinvigorated by the Turco-Mongol tradition of Tarkhan champions. It has no connection to Islam. It is not a term to be as loosely applied as that of a Crusader knight. The doctrines were simply far too different.

You are correct in that it might be leather which is represented, but the production value as seen on the props would leave me at doubt even as far as that is concerned.