Close-Up
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.
8.098 min
CrimeDrama
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.
Movie Info
Release Date: 2/1/1990
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writers: Abbas Kiarostami
Top Cast
Hossain Sabzian
Self
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Self
Abbas Kiarostami
Self
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