Close-Up
Visit website7.9/10 • 399
1990-05-09 • 1h 38m
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
- Directors
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Writters
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Editors
- Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up
Visit website1990-05-09 • 1h 38m
7.9/10 • 399
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
- Directors
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Writters
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Editors
- Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami
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Hossain Sabzian
Self
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Self
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Self
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Self
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Self
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Self
Hossain Farazmand
Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
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Hooshang Shamaei
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- Status
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- Original Language
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- Keywords
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