{"id":15045,"date":"2023-10-17T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T10:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/prominent-iranian-director-and-wife-stabbed-to-death\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T10:47:05","slug":"prominent-iranian-director-and-wife-stabbed-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/prominent-iranian-director-and-wife-stabbed-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Iranian director and wife stabbed to death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of Iran\u2019s most important filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made \u2018The Cow\u2019<\/em>\u00a0in 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 \u2018Mizan online\u2019<\/em>\u00a0news agency.<\/p>\n

In an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper \u2018Etemad\u2019<\/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 \u2018The Cow\u2019<\/em>, included \u2018Mr Gullible\u2019<\/em> (1970), \u2018The Cycle\u2019<\/em> (1977), \u2018The Tenants\u2019<\/em> (1987), \u2018Hamoun\u2019<\/em> (1990), \u2018Sara\u2019<\/em> (1993), \u2018Pari\u2019<\/em> (1995), and \u2018Leila\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(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 \u2018Journey to the Land of Rimbaud\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(1983).<\/p>\n

On returning to Iran, he triumphed at the box office with \u2018The Tenants\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 1990, he directed\u00a0Hamoun<\/em>, a dark comedy showing 24 hours in the life of an intellectual tormented by his divorce and his intellectual anxieties in Iran overwhelmed by the technology companies Sony and Toshiba.<\/p>\n

Throughout the 1990s, Mehrjui also depicted the lives of women in \u2018Sara\u2019<\/em>,\u00a0\u2018<\/em>Pari\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018<\/em>Leila\u2019<\/em>, a melodrama about an infertile woman who encourages her husband to marry a second woman.<\/p>\n

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