Prominent Iranian Film Director Dariush Mehrjui, Wife Stabbed to Death

The films were all screened at the Forum des Images in Paris, during a tribute attended by Mehrjui. Between 1980 and 1985, the filmmaker lived in France where he worked on the documentary “Journey to the Land of Rimbaud” (1983). On returning to Iran, he triumphed at the box office with “The Tenants.”  In 1990, he directed “Hamoun,” a dark comedy showing 24 hours in the life of an intellectual tormented by his divorce and his intellectual anxieties in an Iran overwhelmed by the technology companies Sony and Toshiba. Throughout the 1990s, Mehrjui also depicted the lives of women in “Sara,” “Pari” and “Leila,” a melodrama about an infertile woman who encourages her husband to marry a second woman.