A Dragon Arrives! (2016)
Overview
On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | fa |
| Popularity | 0.0551 |
Directed By
Mani Haghighi
Crew
Mani Haghighi
Mani Haghighi
Hayedeh Safiyari
Christophe Rezai
Amir-Hossein Ghasemi
Daryoush Sadghapour
Mani Haghighi
Hooman Behmanesh
TOP CAST
Amir Jadidi
Babak Hafizi
Ehsan Goodarzi
Keyvan Haddad / Sound engineer
Homayoun Ghanizadeh
Behnam Shokoohi / Geologist
Nader Fallah
Almas
Ali Bagheri
Javad Charaki
Kiana Tajammol
Shahrzad Besharat (young)
Mani Haghighi
Himself
Kamran Safamanesh
Saeed Jahangiri
Javad Ansari
Darshan
Shahin Karimi
Shahrzad Besharat (old)
Laila Arjumand
Valleh
Manuchehr Anvar
narrator of Malakoot (voice)
Mohamad Ramezani Pour
Pilot
Sepehr Sepi
Pianist
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