Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated August 6, of Dariush Mehrjui. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Iranian Filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui Stabbed To Death In His Home

Iranian Filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui Stabbed To Death In His Home

File photo dated 2018 shows Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjooi attending Salamat Film Festival in Isfahan, Iran. - Dariush Mehrjui, hailed as a pioneer of Iranian cinema’s new wave movement, was stabbed to death in his home Saturday on evening along with his wife, according to authorities. Mehrjui, 83, and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar, 54, a screenwriter and costume designer, were found dead by their daughter who was visiting the house in Alborz province near Tehran for dinner. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM