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Close-Up(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-02-01
80%
426 Votes
Time: 1h 38m
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved
Overview:
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.
Languages: Azerbaijani, Persian.
Countries:
Iran
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Close-Up
Top 10 Billed Cast
Hossain Sabzian
Self
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Close-up (1990) Trailer | Director: Abbas Kiarostami - Trailer
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