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98 mins | Drama, Crime | May 9, 1990

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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98 mins | Drama, Crime | May 9, 1990

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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.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Kanoon
Original title کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
Directors Abbas Kiarostami
Writers Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Hossain Sabzian

as Self

Hossain Farazmand

as Reporter

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

as Family Friend

Hooshang Shamaei

as Taxi Driver

Davood Goodarzi

as Sergeant

Hassan Komaili

as Court Recorder

Davood Mohabbat

as Court Recorder

Hushang Shahai

as Self