Close-Up

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

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Cast

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  Hossain Sabzian
  Hossain Sabzian

• M

  Monoochehr Ahankhah
  Monoochehr Ahankhah

• M

  Mahrokh Ahankhah
  Mahrokh Ahankhah

• A

  Abolfazl Ahankhah
  Abolfazl Ahankhah

• M

  Mehrdad Ahankhah
  Mehrdad Ahankhah

• N

  Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
  Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

• H

  Hossain Farazmand
  Reporter

• A

  Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
  Family Friend

• H

  Hooshang Shamaei
  Taxi Driver

• M

  Mohammad Ali Barrati
  Soldier

• D

  Davood Goodarzi
  Sergeant

• H

  Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi
  Judge

• H

  Hassan Komaili
  Court Recorder

• D

  Davood Mohabbat
  Court Recorder

• H

  Hassan Farazmand
  Hassan Farazmand

• H

  Hushang Shahai
  Hushang Shahai

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  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami