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Synopsis

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.

Year1990
CountryIran
Films Close-Up Inspired
We’re very influenced by people like Kiarostami and their kind of hybrid cinema.
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Films with Similar Themes

identity and impersonation · cinema and filmmaking · reality versus fiction · artistic creation · deception and fraud