Film
Close-Up
1990· NR· 1h 38m· Crime· Drama
“A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.”
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.
1990-05-09
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Key Crew
DirectorAbbas Kiarostami
WriterAbbas Kiarostami
ProducerHassan Aghakarimi
Director of PhotographyAli Reza Zarrindast
EditorAbbas Kiarostami
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Details
Released1990-05-09
Runtime1h 38m · NR
StatusReleased
StudiosKanoon
LanguagesAzerbaijani · Persian
CountriesIran
Rating8.0/10 · 455 votes
Original languagefa
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