Dariush Mehrjui

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Dariush Mehrjui December 8 1939 October 14 2023 also spelled as Mehrjui Mehrjoui and Mehrjuyi was an Iranian director screenwriter producer and film editor Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s His second film The Cow is considered to be the first film of this movement which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays On October 14 2023 Mehrjui and his wife were found murdered in their home in the city of Karaj near Tehran