Close-Up(1990)

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.

Cast & Crew

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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