Close-Up

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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  Abbas Kiarostami

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  Hossain Sabzian
  Self
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  Monoochehr Ahankhah
  Self
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  Mahrokh Ahankhah
  Self
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  Abolfazl Ahankhah
  Self
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  Mehrdad Ahankhah
  Self
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  Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
  Self
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  Hossain Farazmand
  Reporter
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  Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
  Family Friend
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  Hooshang Shamaei
  Taxi Driver
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  Mohammad Ali Barrati
  Soldier
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  Davood Goodarzi
  Sergeant
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  Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi
  Judge
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  Hassan Komaili
  Court Recorder
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  Davood Mohabbat
  Court Recorder
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  Hassan Farazmand
  Self
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  Hushang Shahai
  Self
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  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Self
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  Abbas Kiarostami
  Self