According to the agency representing him, the accusations of plagiarism against Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi have been dismissed. One of his students had brought these charges against his film A Hero, but they have been cleared on Wednesday.
In 2021, a movie set in the city of Shiraz, Iran, about a prisoner, was awarded the grand prix at the Cannes film festival.
The next year, Azadeh Masihzadeh, a past student, filed a copyright infringement claim against the subject of her documentary All Winners, All Losers.
The agency released a statement stating that the film A Hero was found innocent of any copyright infringement accusations.
The official Irna news agency reported that “seven experts” chosen by the Iranian courts unanimously refuted all allegations made by the complainant.
The tale of a jailed individual who gains notoriety by discovering a bag of gold and giving it back to its rightful owner, despite enduring severe financial struggles.
During the Cannes Film Festival of 2022, Farhadi refuted allegations of plagiarism.
“When an occurrence has occurred, it becomes part of the public record,” he stated to journalists during the aforementioned period. “It had been covered in a well-known Iranian newspaper, easily accessible through a Google search,” Farhadi further explained.
Each individual is entitled to their own perspective on this narrative. A Hero is one interpretation, much like this documentary, and there is no issue of copyright whatsoever.
Farhadi is a two-time recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, earning the honor for both his 2011 work A Separation and his 2016 film The Salesman.
Source: theguardian.com
