By AFP
TEHRAN: One of Iran’s most outstanding film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to demise on Saturday night alongside his spouse at their house close to Tehran.
A provincial chief justice mentioned Mehrjui and his spouse, Vahideh Mohammadifar, “were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online web site mentioned.
According to Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province close to Tehran, Mehrjui despatched a textual content message to his daughter, Mona, at about 9:00 pm native time (1730 GMT) inviting her for dinner at their house in Karaj, west of Tehran.
But upon her arrival an hour and a half later, she discovered the our bodies of her lifeless dad and mom with deadly wounds to their necks.
Later within the day, police mentioned “no signs of forced entry can be seen at the crime scene”, including that “no damage has been done to the doors” of their house.
However, they mentioned “traces have been found” on the scene they imagine to be “related to the murderer”.
According to Iran’s ISNA information company, quoting the police headquarters, 4 suspects have been recognized for his or her hyperlinks with the case and two have been arrested.
On Sunday, the Etemad newspaper included an interview with the film-maker’s spouse saying she had been threatened and that their house had been burgled.
“The investigation revealed that no complaints had been filed regarding the illegal entry into the Mehrjui’s family villa and the theft of their belongings”, mentioned Fazeli-Harikandi.
‘Everything is political’
In an announcement, Iran’s minister of tradition, Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili, hailed Mehrjui as “one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema” and “the creator of eternal works”.
Born on December 8, 1939 in Tehran, Mehrjui studied philosophy within the United States earlier than his return to Iran the place he launched a literary journal and launched his first movie in 1967, “Diamond 33”, a parody of the James Bond sequence.
The 83-year-old was indelibly related to the Iranian new wave of cinema, together with his 1969 movie “The Cow” one of many motion’s first footage.
He then directed a string of well-regarded movies together with “Mr Gullible” (1970), “The Cycle” (1977) earlier than leaving Iran within the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Between 1980 and 1985, he lived in France the place he labored on the documentary “Journey to the Land of Rimbaud” (1983).
On returning to his homeland, he triumphed on the field workplace with “The Tenants” (1987).
In 1990, he directed “Hamoun”, a darkish comedy exhibiting 24 hours within the lifetime of an mental affected by divorce and psychological anxieties in an Iran overwhelmed by the expertise corporations Sony and Toshiba.
Throughout the Nineteen Nineties, Mehrjui additionally depicted the lives of girls in “Sara” (1993), “Pari” (1995) and “Leila” (1997), a melodrama about an infertile lady who encourages her husband to marry a second lady.
In interviews with the Iranian media, Mehrjui mentioned he was “greatly influenced” by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and Italian Michelangelo Antonioni.
“I don’t make directly political films to promote a particular ideology or point of view. But everything is political,” he as soon as mentioned.
To Mehrjui, cinema was like “poetry, which cannot take sides with anyone” and he remained adamant that “art must not become a propaganda tool”.
In addition to his cinema profession, he translated works by the French playwright Eugene Ionesco and the German Marxist thinker Herbert Marcuse into Persian.
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TEHRAN: One of Iran’s most outstanding film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to demise on Saturday night alongside his spouse at their house close to Tehran.
A provincial chief justice mentioned Mehrjui and his spouse, Vahideh Mohammadifar, “were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online web site mentioned.
According to Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province close to Tehran, Mehrjui despatched a textual content message to his daughter, Mona, at about 9:00 pm native time (1730 GMT) inviting her for dinner at their house in Karaj, west of Tehran.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
But upon her arrival an hour and a half later, she discovered the our bodies of her lifeless dad and mom with deadly wounds to their necks.
Later within the day, police mentioned “no signs of forced entry can be seen at the crime scene”, including that “no damage has been done to the doors” of their house.
However, they mentioned “traces have been found” on the scene they imagine to be “related to the murderer”.
According to Iran’s ISNA information company, quoting the police headquarters, 4 suspects have been recognized for his or her hyperlinks with the case and two have been arrested.
On Sunday, the Etemad newspaper included an interview with the film-maker’s spouse saying she had been threatened and that their house had been burgled.
“The investigation revealed that no complaints had been filed regarding the illegal entry into the Mehrjui’s family villa and the theft of their belongings”, mentioned Fazeli-Harikandi.
‘Everything is political’
In an announcement, Iran’s minister of tradition, Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili, hailed Mehrjui as “one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema” and “the creator of eternal works”.
Born on December 8, 1939 in Tehran, Mehrjui studied philosophy within the United States earlier than his return to Iran the place he launched a literary journal and launched his first movie in 1967, “Diamond 33”, a parody of the James Bond sequence.
The 83-year-old was indelibly related to the Iranian new wave of cinema, together with his 1969 movie “The Cow” one of many motion’s first footage.
He then directed a string of well-regarded movies together with “Mr Gullible” (1970), “The Cycle” (1977) earlier than leaving Iran within the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Between 1980 and 1985, he lived in France the place he labored on the documentary “Journey to the Land of Rimbaud” (1983).
On returning to his homeland, he triumphed on the field workplace with “The Tenants” (1987).
In 1990, he directed “Hamoun”, a darkish comedy exhibiting 24 hours within the lifetime of an mental affected by divorce and psychological anxieties in an Iran overwhelmed by the expertise corporations Sony and Toshiba.
Throughout the Nineteen Nineties, Mehrjui additionally depicted the lives of girls in “Sara” (1993), “Pari” (1995) and “Leila” (1997), a melodrama about an infertile lady who encourages her husband to marry a second lady.
In interviews with the Iranian media, Mehrjui mentioned he was “greatly influenced” by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and Italian Michelangelo Antonioni.
“I don’t make directly political films to promote a particular ideology or point of view. But everything is political,” he as soon as mentioned.
To Mehrjui, cinema was like “poetry, which cannot take sides with anyone” and he remained adamant that “art must not become a propaganda tool”.
In addition to his cinema profession, he translated works by the French playwright Eugene Ionesco and the German Marxist thinker Herbert Marcuse into Persian.
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