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.
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
Who's in it
Cast
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13 billed performers
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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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- Release date
- May 9, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
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- Language
- Azerbaijani, Persian
- Country
- Iran
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