Dariush Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrjui was born in Tehran on 8 December 1939 into a middle-class family. He left in 1959 for the University of California, Los Angeles, where he took film courses and then, in 1964, obtained a degree in philosophy, and with other Iranians he founded a literary magazine in English. After the revolution, he lived in France for several years before returning in 1985. He translated an essay by Herbert Marcuse into Persian. He was killed, together with his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, in their house in Karaj, near Tehran, on 14 October 2023.

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• CinemaThe CowگاوDariush Mehrjui · 1969Cinema