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Plot

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.

Genres

Crime, Drama

Year

1990

Runtime

98 min

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Hossain Farazmand, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Hooshang Shamaei, Mohammad Ali Barrati

TMDB rating

8.0 / 10

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