06 Jan 2006
Havoo
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Death of Yazdgerd
Marg-e Yazdgerd
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.
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Susan Taslimi The Miller's Wife
مهدی هاشمی The Miller
Mahmoud Behrouzian The Priest
امین تارخ The General
Karim Akbari Mobarakeh The Army Chief
Yasaman Arami The Miller's Daughter
علیرضا خمسه The Soldier
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