A guilty judgement in a plagiarism case against Oscar winning director Asghar Farhadi is not the final verdict of the court, the filmmaker’s lawyer has said.
The case involves Farhadi’s A Hero, which won the Grand Prize in Cannes last year and was Iran’s submission for the International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards.
A former student of Farhadi’s, Azadeh Masihzadeh, has accused the filmmaker of stealing the idea for A Hero from her documentary All Winners All Losers.
The doc was made during a workshop overseen by the A Separation and The Salesman auteur. Farhadi’s lawyer, Kaveh Rad, wrote on Instagram today that the case investigator has denied Masihzadeh’s complaint regarding the sharing of the film’s revenues.
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