Revered Iranian Auteur Dariush Mehrjui and Wife Stabbed to Death at Home Outside Tehran, State Media Reports
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui, whose 1969 “The Cow” opened up a new era in Iranian filmmaking, and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home outside Tehran, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted judiciary official Hossein Fazeli as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were found dead with knife wounds in their necks by the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjui, when she went to visit her father Saturday night at their home home in a Tehran suburb.
The IRNA report said the assailant was unknown but that authorities are investigating alleged knife threats to the victims made on social media in recent weeks.
Mehrjui , 83, attended the film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the early 1960s and then became known as co-founder of Iran’s new wave of social realism during the early 1970s thanks to his 1969 drama “The Cow” set in a rural Iranian village that suffers the loss of its single cow.
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