Close-Up (1990)
Kernel Score: 89% · 441 ratings
Genres: Crime, Drama
Released: 1990-05-09
Runtime: 98 minutes
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.
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Cast
- Hossain Sabzian as Self
- Monoochehr Ahankhah as Self
- Mahrokh Ahankhah as Self
- Abolfazl Ahankhah as Self
- Mehrdad Ahankhah as Self
- Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi as Self
- Hossain Farazmand as Reporter
- Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni as Family Friend
- Hooshang Shamaei as Taxi Driver
- Mohammad Ali Barrati as Soldier