Close-Up (1990)
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.
Released: May 09, 1990
Runtime: 98 minutes
Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Crew: Abbas Kiarostami (Writer), Abbas Kiarostami (Director), Abbas Kiarostami (Editor), Ali Reza Zarrin (Executive Producer), Ali Reza Zarrindast (Director of Photography), Mohammad Haghighi (Sound)