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Dariush Mehrjui (Persian: داریوش مهرجویی ‎‎, born on 8 December 1939 in Tehran, also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, film editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts.

Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, Gaav, is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays.

Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained the plot throughout the films. At this time Mehrjui started to learn English so as to better enjoy the films. The film that had the strongest impact on him as a child was Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves. At the age of 12, Mehrjui built a 35 mm projector, rented two-reel films and began selling tickets to his neighborhood friends. Although raised in a religious household, Mehrjui said that, at the age of 15, "The face of God gradually became a little hazy for me, and I lost my faith."

In 1959, Mehrjui moved to the United States to study at University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA) Department of Cinema. One of his teachers there was Jean Renoir, whom Mehrjui credited for teaching him how to work with actors. Mehrjui was dissatisfied with the film program due to its emphasis on the technical aspects of film and the quality of most of the teachers. Mehrjui has said of his educators, "They wouldn't teach you anything very significant...because the teachers were the kind of people who had not been able to make it in Hollywood themselves...[and would] bring the rotten atmosphere of Hollywood to the class and impose it on us." He switched his major to philosophy and graduated from UCLA in 1964. wiki

Director (27 credits)
2014 Ashbah
2013 Che khoobe ke bargashti
2012 Narenji Poush
2011 Aseman-e mahboob
2011 Hame-dana (Documentary)
2010 Tehran, Tehran (segment "Tehran, Tehran")
2007 Santuri
2006 Fereshte va farsh (Short)
2004 Mehman-e maman
2002 Bemani
2000 The Mix
2000 Tales of an Island (segment "Dear Cousin Is Lost")
1999 Baanoo
1998 Derakhte Golabi
1997 Leila
1995 Pari
1993 Sara
1990 Hamoun
1988 Shirak
1986 Ejareh-Nesheenha
1983 Voyage au pays De Rimbaud
1980 Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh
1978 Dayereh mina
1972 Postchi
1971 Aghaye Hallou
1969 Gaav
1966 Almaas 33
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Enlaces completados:
OK Dayereh Mina (Dariush Mehrjui, 1978)
OK Derakhte Golabi (Dariush Mehrjui, 1998)
OK Gaav (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)
OK Leila (Dariush Mehrjui, 1997)
OK Postchi (Dariush Mehrjui, 1972)
OK Sara (Dariush Mehrjui, 1993)