CrimeDrama
Close-Up
"A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved."
8.0/ 10
February 1, 1990
1h 38m
Available on:
Criterion ChannelOverview
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.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
Hossain Sabzian
Self
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Monoochehr Ahankhah
Self
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Mahrokh Ahankhah
Self
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Abolfazl Ahankhah
Self
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Mehrdad Ahankhah
Self
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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Self
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Hossain Farazmand
Reporter
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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
Family Friend
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Hooshang Shamaei
Taxi Driver
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Mohammad Ali Barrati
Soldier
