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Close-Up (1990)

Close-Up (1990)

Drama Crime

A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

Release Date: 1990, May 9
Directors: Abbas Kiarostami
Countries: Iran
Production: Kanoon
Cast: 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

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.

Keywords:

understated dignified movie business teheran (tehran), iran filmmaker reenactment