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Poster for the movie "Close-Up"

Close-up

1990 • Crime, Drama • 1 h 38 min

Summary

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.

Director: Abbas KiarostamiTop Billed Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Hossain Farazmand, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Hooshang Shamaei
Image from the movie "Close-Up"

Close-up

1990 • Crime, Drama • 1 h 38 min

Summary

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.

Director: Abbas KiarostamiTop Billed Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Hossain Farazmand, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Hooshang Shamaei

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