Close-Up (1999)

  • NR
  • 12/31/1999 (US)
  • Crime, Drama
  • 1h 38m

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.

Abbas Kiarostami

Writer, Director

Cast

Hossain Sabzian's headshot

Hossain Sabzian

Self
Monoochehr Ahankhah's headshot

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self
Mahrokh Ahankhah's headshot

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self
Abolfazl Ahankhah's headshot

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self
Mehrdad Ahankhah's headshot

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi's headshot

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self
Hossain Farazmand's headshot

Hossain Farazmand

Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni's headshot

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

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