Director Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning films “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” remains embroiled in legal action over a claim of plagiarism revolving around his latest film.
“A Hero” (“Ghahreman”), which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year and was Iran’s international feature film entry at the Academy Awards this year, centers on a real-life Shirazi prisoner who finds a purse of coins and goes viral for tracking down the owner rather than keeping it for himself.
But the two-time Oscar winner, 49, has been accused of violating the copyright of “All Winners, All Losers,” a former film student’s documentary about the prisoner, and withholding revenue from her and allegedly defaming the subject of her doc.
