TEHRAN, Iran -- 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.
In an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper Etemad, the film-maker's wife said that she had been threatened and their home had been burgled.
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