Rhino Season
★ 5.4 · 2012 · 88m · Drama · Thriller · History
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.
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