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Title: Close-Up

Release Date: 9 May 1990

Runtime: 1h 38m

Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Kanoon

Production Companies: Kanoon

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.922 (384 votes)

Cast

  • Self: Hossain Sabzian
  • Self: Monoochehr Ahankhah
  • Self: Mahrokh Ahankhah
  • Self: Abolfazl Ahankhah
  • Self: Mehrdad Ahankhah
  • Self: Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
  • Reporter: Hossain Farazmand
  • Family Friend: Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
  • Taxi Driver: Hooshang Shamaei
  • Soldier: Mohammad Ali Barrati
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