A Dragon Arrives!

Apr 27, 2016

1h 47m

★ 5.9

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?

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Horror

Production Companies

Crossfadefilms

Dark Precursor Productions

A Dragon Arrives! Trailers

Cast

Babak Hafizi

Amir Jadidi

Keyvan Haddad / Sound engineer

Ehsan Goodarzi

Behnam Shokoohi / Geologist

Homayoun Ghanizadeh

Almas

Nader Fallah

Javad Charaki

Ali Bagheri

Shahrzad Besharat (young)

Kiana Tajammol

Himself

Mani Haghighi

Saeed Jahangiri

Kamran Safamanesh

Darshan

Javad Ansari

Shahrzad Besharat (old)

Shahin Karimi

Valleh

Laila Arjumand

narrator of Malakoot (voice)

Manuchehr Anvar

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