Death of Yazdgerd (1982)
Original title: مرگ یزدگرد
Marg-e Yazdgerd
Bahram Beizai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.
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Susan TaslimiThe Miller's Wife
Mehdi HashemiThe MillerMahmoud BehrouzianThe Priest
Amin TarokhThe GeneralKarim Akbari MobarakehThe Army ChiefYasaman AramiThe Miller's Daughter
Alireza KhamsehThe SoldierKeywords
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What is Death of Yazdgerd about?
Bahram Beizai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.
How long is Death of Yazdgerd?
Death of Yazdgerd has a runtime of 113 minutes.