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

1990 1h 38m 8Movie

CrimeDrama

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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Abbas Kiarostami

Writer, Director

Top Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Hossain Sabzian

Hossain Sabzian

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Judge

Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Self

Hassan Komaili

Court Recorder

Davood Mohabbat

Court Recorder

Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

Hassan Farazmand

Hassan Farazmand

Hushang Shahai

Hushang Shahai