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1990-05-09 · 98 min · ★ 8.0

Crime · Drama

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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Directors
Abbas Kiarostami
Production companies
Kanoon
Countries
Iran
Status
Released

Top Cast

Hossain SabzianHossain SabzianSelf
Monoochehr AhankhahSelf
Mahrokh AhankhahSelf
Abolfazl AhankhahSelf
Mehrdad AhankhahSelf
Nayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf
Hossain FarazmandReporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend
Hooshang ShamaeiTaxi Driver
Mohammad Ali BarratiSoldier
Davood GoodarziSergeant
Haj Ali Reza AhmadiJudge
Hassan KomailiCourt Recorder
Davood MohabbatCourt Recorder
Hassan FarazmandSelf
Hushang ShahaiSelf
Mohsen MakhmalbafMohsen MakhmalbafSelf
Abbas KiarostamiAbbas KiarostamiSelf

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