Dariush Mehrjui, one of Iran’s most well-known film directors, and his wife were found dead.
The 83-year-old and Vahideh Mohammadifar were discovered wounded by stabs on Saturday night in their house outside of Tehran, according to Iranian authorities.
One of the pioneers of Iranian new-wave cinema was Mehrjui.
In relation to the deaths, four people have reportedly been identified, according to local media reports.
Hossein Fazeli, the chief justice, claimed that Mehrjui had extended an invitation to his daughter to spend the evening with him at his residence in the city of Karaj.
It is said that when she arrived, she discovered her parents’ bodies.
As Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and wife found dead, according to reports, Mohammadifar, a screenwriter and costume designer, recently complained that she had been threatened and that the house had been broken into.
Among those who reacted to the killings on social media was Iranian actor and director Houman Seyedi, who called them “terrible and brutal.”
His 1969 film The Cow, which tells the tale of a villager’s obsession with the titular animal, Mehrjui, who studied in the US as a young man and later lived in France for five years, first gained national and international recognition.
His other most well-known films are Hamoun, The Pear Tree, and Leila, the latter of which is about an infertile woman who persuades her husband to wed again.
Mehrjui was well-known for drawing inspiration from literature, even though the new wave movement primarily emphasized realism.
Over the years, he won numerous awards, but despite the praise his films received at international film festivals, some of them barely made it to Iran due to censorship.
