Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has been cleared of allegations that he plagiarized his Oscar-winning 2021 feature “A Hero” from a former student’s work after a Tehran-based panel of experts in copyright law and art found the charges to be “baseless,” according to multiple media reports.
Farhadi, winner of two Academy Awards for foreign language films, was found guilty in 2022 in an Iranian court of plagiarizing the story and faced everything from prison time to fines. The Wednesday ruling was expected put the matter to rest.
“A Hero” centers on a man who finds a bag of gold coins while on a brief leave from debtor’s prison.
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