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1990 | Color | 98 n.

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational reallife 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.


Country: Irán
Direction: Kiarostami; Abbas
Script: Kiarostami; Abbas
Production: Reza Zarrin; Ali
Photography: Reza Zarrindast; Ali
Sound: Asgari; Ahmad, Haghighi; Mahammad
Music: Roushanavan; Kambiz
Cast:Ahankhah; Mehrdad, Shamai; Houshang, Makhmalbaf; Mohsen, Ahankhah; Monoochehr, Ahankhah; Mahrokh, Mohseni Zonoozi; Nayer, Reza Moayed Mohseni; Ahmad, Ali Barrati; Mohammad, Farazmand; Hassan, Sabzian; Hosein
Art direction: Agha Karimi; Hassan
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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