Rhino Season (2012)
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Top billed cast
Behrouz VossoughiSahel
Monica BellucciMina
Caner CindorukYoung Sahel
Yılmaz ErdoğanAkbar Rezai
Belçim BilginEbru (Female Pimp)
Arash LabafSon
Ali Pourtash
Beren SaatDaughter
Ahmet Mümtaz TaylanDriver- Arslan Burak BozdagVillager
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