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A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

Film19901h 38mReleased

DramaCrime
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Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Language
Persian
Released
1990-05-09
Runtime
1h 38m

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8.0455 votes on TMDB

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7.3

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The story

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

  • Hossain Sabzian
    Hossain SabzianSelf
  • Monoochehr Ahankhah — artwork unavailable
    Monoochehr AhankhahSelf
  • Mahrokh Ahankhah — artwork unavailable
    Mahrokh AhankhahSelf
  • Abolfazl Ahankhah — artwork unavailable
    Abolfazl AhankhahSelf
  • Mehrdad Ahankhah — artwork unavailable
    Mehrdad AhankhahSelf
  • Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi — artwork unavailable
    Nayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf
  • Hossain Farazmand — artwork unavailable
    Hossain FarazmandReporter
  • Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni — artwork unavailable
    Ahmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend
  • Hooshang Shamaei — artwork unavailable
    Hooshang ShamaeiTaxi Driver
  • Mohammad Ali Barrati — artwork unavailable
    Mohammad Ali BarratiSoldier