{"id":14587,"date":"2023-10-16T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/prominent-iranian-director-dariush-mehrjui-stabbed-to-death-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T01:05:08","slug":"prominent-iranian-director-dariush-mehrjui-stabbed-to-death-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/prominent-iranian-director-dariush-mehrjui-stabbed-to-death-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui stabbed to death | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of Iran’s 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” in 1969, one of the movement’s first films.<\/p>\n

“During the preliminary investigation, we found that Dariush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were killed by multiple stab wound to the neck,” said Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province, near Tehran, according to Mizan online news agency.<\/p>\n

In an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper Etemad, the film-maker’s wife said that she had been threatened and their home had been burgled.<\/p>\n

“The investigation revealed that no complaints had been filed regarding the illegal entry into the Mehrjui’s family villa and the theft of their belongings”, said Fazeli-Harikandi.<\/p>\n

Dariush Mehrjui’s most notable films, alongside “The Cow”, included “Mr Gullible” (1970), “The Cycle” (1977), “The Tenants” (1987), “Hamoun” (1990), “Sara” (1993), “Pari” (1995) and “Leila” (1997).<\/p>\n

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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 film-maker lived in France where he worked on the documentary “Journey to the Land of Rimbaud” (1983).<\/p>\n

On returning to Iran, he triumphed at the box office with “The Tenants”.<\/p>\n

In 1990, he directed “Hamoun”, 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”, “Pari” and “Leila”, a melodrama about an infertile woman who encourages her husband to marry a second woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n