Iranian Director Dariush Mehrjui Murdered At House With Spouse – Deadline

Followers of the celebrated Iranian movie director Dariush Mehrjui have woken to the stunning information of his homicide at residence by an unknown assailant. He was 83.

State media reported Sunday that Mehrjui and his spouse Vehideh Mohammadifar have been each stabbed to dying inside their residence in a suburb west of the nation’s capital Tehran.

The IRNA information company reported that the director’s daughter Mona Mehrjui made the horrible discovery when she went to go to her father’s residence on Saturday night. Each victims have been reportedly discovered with knife wounds of their necks. Whereas the investigation is ongoing, it has emerged that Mohammadifar had complained on social media a few knife menace she had acquired in latest weeks.

Followers of Mehrjui’s work have been fast to specific their disappointment on social media and keep in mind his work as a co-founder of Iran’s movie new wave within the early Nineteen Seventies. His second movie, The Cow, is taken into account to be the primary movie of this motion. Most of his movies are impressed by literature and tailored from Iranian and overseas novels and performs.

In 1959, Mehrjui moved to the USA to check on the UCLA’s Division of Cinema. He studied there beneath Jean Renoir, whom he credited with instructing him work with actors. Again in his native Iran, previous to his movie profession, he began his personal literary journal in 1964, Pars Overview. 

Mehrjui acquired many awards all through his profession, together with a Silver Hugo from the Chicago Worldwide Movie Competition in 1998 and a Golden Seashell on the San Sebastian Worldwide Movie Competition in 1993.