Close-Up
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.
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.
Top Cast
Hossain Sabzian
Self
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Self
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Self
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Self
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Self
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Self
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
Self
Hushang Shahai
Self
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