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7.9 / 10

(353 votes)

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.

Country:

Iran

Genre:

Crime,

Drama

Duration:

98 minutes

Year:

1990

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

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Company:

Kanoon

Cast:
Hossain Sabzian

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

Crew:
Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Writer

Ali Reza Zarrin

Executive Producer

Abbas Kiarostami

Editor

Ali Reza Zarrindast

Director of Photography