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Close-Up (1999)

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.
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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.

Rating:NR
Genre:Crime, Drama
Directed By:Abbas Kiarostami
Written By:Abbas Kiarostami
In Theaters:12/31/1999
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Runtime:98 minutes
Studio:Kanoon

Cast


Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

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Hossain Sabzian

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

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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

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Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant