Close-Up (1990)
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.
Crime, Drama
Cast
- 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 — Family Friend
- Hooshang Shamaei — Taxi Driver
- Mohammad Ali Barrati — Soldier
- Davood Goodarzi — Sergeant
- Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi — Judge
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