Close-Up

Storyline

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.

Top Cast

Hossain Sabzian

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

?

Hassan Komaili

Court Recorder

?

Davood Mohabbat

Court Recorder

?

Hassan Farazmand

Self

?

Hushang Shahai

Self

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Self

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Self

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Writers

Abbas Kiarostami

Status

Released

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