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One of Iran\u2019s most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made The Cow<\/em> in 1969, one of the movement\u2019s first films.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the preliminary investigation, we found that Dariush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck,\u201d said Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province, near Tehran, according to Mizan online<\/em> news agency.<\/p>\n In an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper Etemad<\/em>, the filmmaker\u2019s wife said that she had been threatened and their home had been burgled.<\/p>\n \u201cThe investigation revealed that no complaints had been filed regarding the illegal entry into the Mehrjui\u2019s family villa and the theft of their belongings\u201d, said Fazeli-Harikandi.<\/p>\n Dariush Mehrjui\u2019s most notable films, alongside The Cow<\/em>, included Mr Gullible<\/em> (1970), The Cycle<\/em> (1977), The Tenants<\/em> (1987), Hamoun<\/em> (1990), Sara<\/em> (1993), Pari<\/em> (1995), and Leila<\/em> (1997).<\/p>\n The films were all screened at the Forum des Images in Paris, during a tribute attended by Mehrjui.<\/p>\n Between 1980 and 1985, the filmmaker lived in France where he worked on the documentary Journey to the Land of Rimbaud<\/em> (1983).<\/p>\n On returning to Iran, he triumphed at the box office with The Tenants<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 1990, he directed Hamoun<\/em>, a dark comedy showing 24 hours in the life of an intellectual tormented by his divorce and his intellectual anxieties in an Iran overwhelmed by the technology companies Sony and Toshiba.<\/p>\n Throughout the 1990s, Mehrjui also depicted the lives of women in Sara<\/em>, Pari<\/em> and Leila<\/em>, a melodrama about an infertile woman who encourages her husband to marry a second woman.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of Iran\u2019s most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. 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