MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS RHINO SEASON A film by Bahman Ghobadi INTERNATIONAL SALES INTERNATIONAL PR Ingrid Hamilton - GAT Carole BARATON -
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[email protected] SYNOPSIS Based on the diaries of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sadegh Kamangar, RHINO SEASON tells the story of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel (Behrouz Vossoughi) and his wife Mina (Monica Bellucci), a couple unjustly incarcerated during Iran's Islamic Revolution. Having survived 30 terrible years in prison, Sahel is finally released, only to discover that Mina, believing him long dead, has left the country for Turkey, where she lives as an immigrant with her two children, still mourning the loss of her husband. A damaged ghost of his former self, Sahel sets out for Istanbul in search of the woman he loves. As he travels, his journey quickly reveals itself as an uncanny passage through the darkness of their history, the black shadow of the man who has kept them apart all these years re-emerges... A lyrical account of Sahel's past and present blurs all boundaries in the landscape of his experience. Woven together from his poems, the words that follow Sahel are both his curse and saviour. Will he find Mina? Will they learn to live again? CHARACTERS Sahel Sahel is an established Kurdish-Iranian poet whose life has been shattered during the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of blasphemous writing, he will learn to survive by clinging to the memory of his beautiful wife Mina, and creating a separate dimension to the four walls of his cell through his poems.