FILM DIRECTOR

Dariush Mehrjui

1939 - 2023

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Dariush Mehrjui (Persian: داریوش مهرجویی‎; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s, which also included directors Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. His second film, The Cow (1969), is considered to be the first film of this movement. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dariush Mehrjui is the 727th most popular film director (down from 207th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Iran (down from 151st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iranian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 727 out of 2,041Before him are Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Alexander Payne, Franco Rossi, Mike Flanagan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, and Olle Hellbom. After him are Herbert Selpin, Luigi Zampa, Hal Roach, W. S. Van Dyke, Aleksei Yuryevich German, and Bruce Beresford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 277Before him are Ekaterina Maximova, Arik Einstein, Stephen Cook, Brigitte Fontaine, Chögyam Trungpa, and Giorgio Ferrini. After him are János Göröcs, Tigran Mansurian, Jean Van Hamme, Néstor Combin, Tetsuya Chiba, and Carmen Salinas. Among people deceased in 2023, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 249Before him are Francisco J. Ayala, Vassilis Vassilikos, Denny Laine, Edgar Schein, Slim Borgudd, and Antonio Juliano. After him are Tengiz Kitovani, Lowell Weicker, Colin Burgess, Ilya Kabakov, Ernst Tugendhat, and Doyle Brunson.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 312 out of 631Before him are Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Sami Yusuf (1980), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), and Saib Tabrizi (1592). After him are Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945), Simin Daneshvar (1921), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Al-Birjandi (null), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), and Suleiman II of Persia (1714).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 7Before him are Abbas Kiarostami (1940), Jafar Panahi (1960), Barbet Schroeder (1941), Shirin Neshat (1957), Asghar Farhadi (1972), and Majid Majidi (1959). After him are Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Mohammad Rasoulof (1972), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Ali Abbasi (1981), Ali Hatami (1944), and Bahman Ghobadi (1969).