Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Abbas KiarostamiProducers: Ali Reza Zarrin, Hassan Aghakarimi

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

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