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- Released on
Crime, Drama
•- Runtime
- 98 mins
(371 votes)
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.
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
Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
Producers
- Hassan Aghakarimi
