

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…
NR • Crime, Drama • Movie • 1990 • 1h 38m
Starring: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up
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.
NR • Crime, Drama • Movie • 1990

Featurette
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