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Close-Up

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

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.

CrimeDrama

Release: 1990-05-09Runtime: 98 minRating: 7.938 (444)

Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Hossain Sabzian

Self

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

Crew

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Writer

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Editor

Ali Reza Zarrin

Executive Producer

Ali Reza Zarrindast

Ali Reza Zarrindast

Director of Photography

Mohammad Haghighi

Sound

Jahangir Mirshekari

Sound

Farima Zand-Pour

Makeup Artist

Hassan Aghakarimi

Producer

Hassan Zahedi

Sound

Clips & Videos

What even is Truth? Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up (1990)

What even is Truth? Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up (1990)

Martin Scorsese on Close-Up

Martin Scorsese on Close-Up

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

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

What's so great about Close-Up? (Kiarostami, 1990)

What's so great about Close-Up? (Kiarostami, 1990)