CrimeDrama
Close-Up
“A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.”
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.
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ali Reza Zarrin
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User score
474 votes
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Status
Released
Released
May 9, 1990
Runtime
1h 38m
Language
Azerbaijani, Persian
Top cast
Hossain Sabzian
Hossain Sabzian
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Hossain Farazmand
Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
Family Friend
Hooshang Shamaei
Taxi Driver
Mohammad Ali Barrati
Soldier
Davood Goodarzi
Sergeant
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi
Judge
Hassan Komaili
Court Recorder
Davood Mohabbat
Court Recorder
Hassan Farazmand
Hassan Farazmand
Hushang Shahai
Hushang Shahai
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami
