Death of Yazdgerd

Name: Death of Yazdgerd
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1982-04-01
Duration: 113 min
Cast: Karim Akbari Mobarakeh, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh, Alireza Khamseh

Marg-e Yazdgerd

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Release Date

4/1/1982

Runtime

113 mins

Genres

Drama History

Overview

A poetic imagining of the circumstances leading 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, remains mysterious: his corpse is discovered in a mill, but the cause of death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.

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Released

Original Language

Persian

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A slow, meditative poem of a film that traces the final days of a doomed empire through the fragmented mystery of one man's death. It moves at the pace of loss itself, asking difficult questions about faith, sovereignty, and who gets to write the story of the vanquished.