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