Film
Close-Up (1990)
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.
Crime, Drama· Directed by Abbas Kiarostami· 98 min
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.
Connections
Top billing
- Hossain Sabzian as Self
- Monoochehr Ahankhah as Self
- Mahrokh Ahankhah as Self
- Abolfazl Ahankhah as Self
- Mehrdad Ahankhah as Self