
Death of Yazdgerd
Apr 01 1982
•2h 53m
•History, Drama
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 unknown.
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Susan Taslimi
The Miller's Wife

Mehdi Hashemi
The Miller

Mahmoud Behrouzian
The Priest

Amin Tarokh
The General
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