Close-Up

Close-Up

"A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved"
  • 1990
  • 1 hr 37 min
  •  7.952  (431)
  •   Released

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.

Close-Up
Close-up (1990) Trailer | Director: Abbas Kiarostami

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Description
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.
  • Release Date
    1990
  • Runtime
    1 hr 37 min
  • Language
    fa
  • Rating
    7.952  (431)