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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dariush Mehrjui has received more than 287,665 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dariush Mehrjui is the 795th most popular film director (down from 755th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Iran (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 795 out of 1,581. Before him are Želimir Žilnik, Elmar Klos, Boris Kaufman, Benoît Jacquot, Marc Forster, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. After him are John Cromwell, Jasmila Žbanić, Ruy Guerra, Eli Roth, Gianni Amelio, and Aleksander Ford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 281. Before him are Ljiljana Petrović, László Kovács, Billy Cox, Nancy Kwan, Valery Rozhdestvensky, and Ernst Zündel. After him are Khin Nyunt, Trịnh Công Sơn, Adrienne Clarkson, Ryozo Suzuki, Valery Ryumin, and Sumio Iijima. Among people deceased in 2023, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 203. Before him are Fathima Beevi, Francesco Alberoni, Yuri Manin, Elisabeth Kopp, Ken Block, and Burhan Sargun. After him are Andre Braugher, Thomas Williams, Jerry Springer, Luboš Kohoutek, José María Gil-Robles, and Ruth Fuchs.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 304 out of 528. Before him are Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Kader Abdolah (1954), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892). After him are Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Ivan Galamian (1903), Ali-Morad Khan Zand (1779), and Abdullah Mirza (1433).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 9. Before him are Jafar Panahi (1960), Asghar Farhadi (1972), Shirin Neshat (1957), Majid Majidi (1959), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), and Masoud Kimiai (1941). After him are Bahman Ghobadi (1969), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Samira Makhmalbaf (1980), and Hossein Rajabian (1984).

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Filmography

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