Iranian director Dariush Mehrjuiwinner Golden Shell of San Sebastianand his wife Vahideh Muhammadifarthere was stabbed to death by unidentified assailantsAs Iranian media reported this Sunday.
Judicial sources told state agency IRNA that 83-year-old Mehrjui and Mohammadifar He was found stabbed in the neck in his home in the city of Kara.j, near Tehran.
Film director’s daughter discovered dead bodies He notified the police on Saturday night and an investigation was launched into the incident.
It was Mehrjui One of the founders of the new wave in Iranian cinema in the 70s and his movie ‘Cow‘ is considered the first work of this realist movement.
The filmmaker had an award-winning career. 49 national and international recognitionsAccording to Mehr agency. Won first place in 1993 Golden Shell San Sebastian Film Festival for feminist movieEpilepsy‘.
You are the tapeFree adaptation of the play ‘A Doll’s House’A work written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, transmitted to Iranian society and harshly criticizing the situation of women in Iran.
His last movie ‘Laminor’ was released in 2019.