News from Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian filmmaker and mono.kultur interviewee from spring 2007. Production of Rhinos Season, his new project begins this March in Turkey. The story will start before the revolution in Iran and end in the present. It will star exiled 1960s-70s’ Iranian megastar Behrouz Vossoughi, who made more than 90 movies in Iran before moving to Los Angeles after the Shah was deposed in 1979 and at his side Italian mega star Monica Belucci who will play an Iranian woman. Just like the other animal references in Ghobadi’s films the rhino is not an obvious story element, I’m curious what the connection will be.
