Close-Up 1990

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

Hossain Sabzian

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Hossain Farazmand

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Hooshang Shamaei

Mohammad Ali Barrati

Davood Goodarzi

Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Hassan Komaili

Davood Mohabbat

Hassan Farazmand

Hushang Shahai

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Abbas Kiarostami