Death of Yazdgerd (1982)

Name: Death of Yazdgerd
Director: Bahram Beyzai
Released: 1982-04-01
Rating: 7.75
Cast: Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh

HistoryDrama

113 min

"Marg-e Yazdgerd"

Plot Summary

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.