Kazem Nazari tributes to Dariush Mehrjui
Iran Theater-In a message, Kazem Nazari, Director General of Dramatic Arts Center, expressed his condolences for the painful death of Dariush Mehrjooi and his wife, Vahida Mohammadifar.
One of Iran's most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening, October 14 alongside his wife at their home near Tehran.
Kazem Nazari reacted to the death of this artist couple and published a message.
He wrote: The painful news of the death of the late cinema artist Dariush Mehrui and his wife, overwhelmed all colleagues and friends and the Iranian people with grief and sorrow.
His valuable and artistic contribution to soulful arts of theater and cinema remained in the mind and hearts of the people of this country; the late Mehrjui was an influential human being in the field of Iranian art, who made Imam Khomeinisay about his work, "We do not say that cinema is basically bad. Films like "Cow" can be a cultural and educational film and improve the mind and spirit of the viewer."
Born on December 8, 1939 in Tehran, Mehrjui studied philosophy in the United States before his return to Iran where he launched a literary magazine and released his first film in 1967, Diamond 33, a parody of the James Bond series.
The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, with his 1969 film The Cow one of the movement's first pictures. He then directed a string of well-regarded films including Mr Gullible (1970), The Cycle (1977) before leaving Iran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Between 1980 and 1985, he lived in France where he worked on the documentary Journey to the Land of Rimbaud (1983). On returning to his homeland, he triumphed at the box office with The Tenants (1987).
He has also been active in the theater and directed the shows "The True West" (2014) and "The Lesson" (2013 and 2019).
