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Death of Yazdgerd (1982)

Death of Yazdgerd (1982)

Drama History

Marg-e Yazdgerd

Release Date: 1982, April 1
Directors: Bahram Beyzai
Countries: Iran
Production: I.R.I.B. Channel 1, I.R.I.B. Channel 1
Cast: Mehdi Hashemi, Susan Taslimi, Amin Tarokh, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Alireza Khamseh, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh, Yasaman Arami

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

regicide iran 7th century sasanian empire early muslim conquests