Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife are killed at home

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Vahideh Mohammadifar, Mehrjui’s wife, said she had received threats and that her house had recently been robbed. Couple was murdered with multiple stab wounds to the neck. Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife are killed in their home Abdulwahed MIRZAZADEH/AFP One of Iran’s most important filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday night (14) along with his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar. The crime took place at the couple’s residence, near Tehran (Iran), according to the AFP agency. The 83-year-old filmmaker directed “The Cow” in 1969, one of the first films of the new wave of Iranian cinema. “During the preliminary investigation, we discovered that Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadifar were murdered with multiple stab wounds to the neck,” said the chief justice of Alborz province, near Tehran, Husein Fazeli-Harikandi. Recently, in an interview published by the newspaper Etemad, the filmmaker’s wife said she had received threats and that her house had been robbed. “The investigation showed that no complaints were filed for the illegal entry into the Mehrjoui family’s property and the theft of their property,” Fazeli-Harikandi added. Between 1980 and 1985, the filmmaker remained in France, where he directed “Voyage au pays de Rimbaud”. Returning to Iran, he triumphed at the box office with “The Tenants.” In 1990, he filmed “Hamoun”, a comedy about 24 hours in the life of an intellectual anguished by his divorce and his intellectual preoccupations, in an Iran invaded by the technology companies Sony and Toshiba. In the 1990s, Mehrjui also made portraits of women, including “Leila,” a melodrama about a barren woman who encourages her husband to marry a second wife. READ ALSO: US announces it will freeze Iran’s access to US$6 billion Piper Laurie, nominated for an Oscar for ‘Carrie the Strange’, dies at age 91 Michael Caine announces retirement at age 90 Iran helped plan attack on Israel, says Wall Street Journal Iran helped plan attack against Israel, says Wall Street Journal Check out highlights and absences from BGS 2023 Check out highlights and absences from BGS 2023

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