Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Released: 1990-02-01
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

8.0

February 1, 1990

1h 38m

Crime Drama

"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.