Asghar Farhadi, the Oscar successful director of A Separation and The Salesman, has misplaced a plagiarism case introduced by one in every of his former college students, who had claimed he took the thought for his 2021 movie A Hero from a documentary she had made for a movie class.
In accordance with the Hollywood Reporter, Azadeh Masihzadeh introduced the case after Farhadi had earlier sued her for defamation; in each instances the courts dominated in Masihzadeh’s favour.
In 2014, Masihzadeh made a brief documentary for a workshop led by Farhadi, a couple of real-life inmate of a debtors’ jail, who discovered and returned a bag of gold whereas on depart on the jail. Masihzadeh’s movie was known as All Winners, All Losers, and confirmed at a movie pageant within the Iranian metropolis of Shiraz in 2018.
Farhadi’s movie A Hero, which stars Amir Jadidi as a debtors’ jail inmate who finds and returns a bag of gold, screened on the Cannes movie pageant in 2021 and gained the second place grand prix; its script is credited to Farhadi alone.
Masihzadeh informed the Hollywood Reporter that Farhadi had pressured her into signing a doc handing rights to the story over to him with out cost.
Farhadi claimed by his lawyer that the primary thought for his movie got here a lot earlier, and he was impressed by the Bertolt Brecht play Lifetime of Galileo.
Farhadi’s declare for defamation towards Masihzadeh was dismissed after the court docket discovered there was inadequate proof to recommend Masihzadeh was intentionally attempting to wreck the director’s fame.
The next plagiarism swimsuit additionally went Masihzadeh’s method, after Farhadi claimed he had independently researched the story and didn't credit score her on A Hero. His sentence is but to be decided.
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