Close-Up

A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

Close-Up — Plot

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
• May 9, 1990
• Runtime
• 98 min
• Genres
• Crime, Drama
• Director
• Abbas Kiarostami

Close-Up — Cast

Hossain Sabzian Self

M

Monoochehr Ahankhah Self

M

Mahrokh Ahankhah Self

A

Abolfazl Ahankhah Self

M

Mehrdad Ahankhah Self

N

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi Self

H

Hossain Farazmand Reporter

A

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni Family Friend