One of the most famous Iranian directors, Dariush Merjui, and his wife, were killed with a knife in their home near Tehran, state authorities announced today.
The 1969-year-old director directed the XNUMX film "Cow", which is considered one of the first films of the Iranian new wave.
"In the preliminary investigation, we found that Dariush Merjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohamadifar, were killed with multiple stab wounds to the neck," said the head of the judicial administration of Albroz province, near Tehran, Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, the legal agency Mizan reported online.
The murder happened last night. In an interview published earlier in the newspaper Etemad, the director's wife said that recently a person threatened her and that their home was robbed.
Fazeli-Harikandi said that the investigation found that there was no complaint about the illegal entry of the Merdzui family's villa and the theft.
Most of his films are inspired by literature and are adaptations of Iranian and foreign novels and plays.
The director, who was a member of the Iranian Academy of Arts, stayed in France between 1980 and 1985, where he directed the film "Journey in the Land of Rimbaud".
After returning to Iran, his film "Tenants" was a great success at the box office.
In 1990, he made "Hamun", a black comedy about 24 hours in the life of an intellectual troubled by divorce and his intellectual insecurities in Iran.
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