2012

1h 28m

5.4(52 votes)

Drama

Thriller

History

Overview

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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The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Behrouz Vossoughi

Sahel

Monica Bellucci

Mina

Caner Cindoruk

Young Sahel

Yılmaz Erdoğan

Akbar Rezai

Belçim Bilgin

Ebru (Female Pimp)

Arash Labaf

Son

Ali Pourtash

Beren Saat

Daughter

Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan

Driver

Arslan Burak Bozdag

Villager

Creative team

Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Written by: Bahman Ghobadi
Produced by: Bahman Ghobadi

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