Death of Yazdgerd

Directed by Bahram Beyzai

With Mehdi Hashemi, Susan Taslimi, Yasaman Arami, Mahmoud Behrouzian and Karim Akbari Mobarakeh

A poetic imagining of the circumstances leading 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, remains mysterious: his corpse is discovered in a mill, but the cause of death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.