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A Separation director Asghar Farhadi cleared of plagiarism claims, says agent

The double Oscar winner’s film A Hero won the grand prix at Cannes in 2021 but was the subject of an alleged copyright infringement brought by a former student

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has been cleared of charges of plagiarism over his film A Hero brought by one of his students, the agency representing him said on Wednesday. “The verdict in the case of alleged copyright infringement in the film A Hero has been delivered and the work has been completely cleared of these accusations,” the agency said in a statement. “Seven experts” appointed by the Iranian courts “unanimously rejected all the plaintiff’s claims”, said the statement, which was quoted by the official Irna news agency.

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