Death of a Showman: New Film Reveals Fresh Evidence in Fereydoun Farrokhzad’s Murder “We are allowed to kill every Iranian who is our enemy because it’s our people. And nobody should care about it. It’s our business.” On August 6, 1992, the body of Iranian entertainer, poet and anti-regime firebrand Fereydoun Farrokhzad was found on the floor of his flat in Bonn, stabbed multiple times and half-melted by the heat of the kitchen stove, which had been left burning long after his killers had fled. The irreverent voice of a generation of Iranian emigres had been snuffed out – if not, as he’d anticipated, for good.
