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The story of the film is based on the murder of Yazdgerd III, the last emperor of Sasanian Persia, who while being hard pressed by the Arabs on his western flank, fled to Marv where he was slain by a miller in a mill, in which he had been taking refuge.
Death of Yazdgerd (or alternatively translated as Death of the King; and whose original subtitle translates "Regicide") (Persian: مرگ یزدگرد) is a Persian play about the death of Yazdegerd III by Bahram Beyzai, often considered his magnum opus, which he adapted into a film of the same name.
Writer and director: Bahram Beyzaiمرگ یزدگرد
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Death of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the miller, his wife and his daughter but all the stories are different from each other.
The film tells the story of the assassination of King Yazdgerd who runs away to Merv and takes refuge there anonymously in a mill. The miller, his wife and his daughter all express a different version of the story.
Bahram Beyzai'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 ...
Death of Yazdgerd: Directed by Bahram Beyzaie. With Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh. Death of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed.
