Though the film could be distributed legally in Iran since the country has no official copyright relations with the United States, Salinger had his lawyers block a planned screening of the film at Lincoln Center in 1998. Mehrjui called Salinger’s action “bewildering,” explaining that he saw his film as “a kind of cultural exchange.”His follow-up film, 1997’s Leila, is a melodrama about an urban, upper-middle-class couple who learn that the wife is unable to bear children.
Daryoush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadi Far, were killed on October 13, 2023, in their villa in Karaj. This news was confirmed on October 14th by Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, the head of the Cinema House Board, as well as by one of the filmmakers present at the scene of the incident.The incident took place in Meshkin Dasht, Karaj, and Daryoush Mehrjui’s daughter reported the incident to the police. Official investigations regarding the perpetrators and motives of these murders have not been publicly disclosed, and further details are not available.
