Close-Up (1990)

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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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.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Language: fa

Production

Cinematographer: Ali Reza Zarrindast · Editor: Abbas Kiarostami

Production: Kanoon

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