Close-Up

Abbas Kiarostami
1990-05-09


7.917
98 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Hossain Sabzian Self Unowned
Monoochehr Ahankhah Self Unowned
Mahrokh Ahankhah Self Unowned
Abolfazl Ahankhah Self Unowned
Mehrdad Ahankhah Self Unowned
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi Self Unowned
Hossain Farazmand Reporter Unowned
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni Family Friend Unowned
Hooshang Shamaei Taxi Driver Unowned
Mohammad Ali Barrati Soldier Unowned
Davood Goodarzi Sergeant Unowned
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi Judge Unowned
Hassan Komaili Court Recorder Unowned
Davood Mohabbat Court Recorder Unowned
Hassan Farazmand Self Unowned
Hushang Shahai Self Unowned
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Self Unowned
Abbas Kiarostami Self Unowned