Close-Up

December. 31,1999      
Rating:
8.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Hossain Sabzian as  Self
Mohsen Makhmalbaf as  Self
Abbas Kiarostami as  Self

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