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Close-Up (1990)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Overview
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.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Hossain Sabzian | Monoochehr Ahankhah | Mahrokh Ahankhah | Abolfazl Ahankhah | Mehrdad Ahankhah | Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi | Hossain Farazmand | Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni | Hooshang Shamaei | Mohammad Ali Barrati | Davood Goodarzi | Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi | Hassan Komaili | Davood Mohabbat | Hassan Farazmand | Hushang Shahai | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Abbas Kiarostami