Death of Yazdgerd

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.

Cast

Susan Taslimi

Mehdi Hashemi

Mahmoud Behrouzian

Amin Tarokh

Karim Akbari Mobarakeh

Yasaman Arami

Alireza Khamseh