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Close-Up

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

7.979 average rating
★★★★★
7.979
Azerbaijani / 98 MIN. / 1990

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Hossain SabzianMonoochehr AhankhahMahrokh AhankhahAbolfazl AhankhahMehrdad AhankhahNayer Mohseni ZonooziHossain FarazmandAhmad Reza Moayed MohseniHooshang ShamaeiMohammad Ali BarratiDavood GoodarziHaj Ali Reza AhmadiHassan KomailiDavood MohabbatHassan FarazmandHushang ShahaiMohsen MakhmalbafAbbas Kiarostami

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