

Close-Up
Visit website7.9/10 • 403
1990-05-09 • 1h 38m
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved
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 • 403
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved
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
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsHossain 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
Family Friend
Hooshang Shamaei
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