Rhino Season (2012)

Original title

وەرزی کەرگەدەن

Directed by

Bahman Ghobadi

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran, Turkey

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

U

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Iranian Kurdish poet is imprisoned for 27 years and declared dead by the government. His family mourns him at a fake grave while he survives brutal confinement. The film follows his eventual release and search for his lost wife.

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What happens

Rhino Season (Persian: فصل کرگدن, Fasl-e Kargadan) is a 2012 Iraqi-Kurdistan-Turkish docufiction film directed by Bahman Ghobadi and presented by Martin Scorsese. Starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Caner Cindoruk, and Arash Labaf. The movie includes poems read and written by Bayan Nassir. The film is based on Iranian Kurdish poet and author Sedigh Kamangar, who spent 27 years imprisoned in Iran while his family was told that he was dead. For many years Sadegh's family cried over a fake grave staged by the Iranian government. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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