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Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
Original Release
05/09/1990
US Release
12/31/1999
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Hossain Sabzian | Himself / Self |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Himself / Self |
Abolfazl Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Mehrdad Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Monoochehr Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Mahrokh Ahankhah | Herself / Self |
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi | Herself / Self |
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni | Family Friend |
Hossain Farazmand | Reporter |
Hooshang Shamaei | Taxi Driver |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hossain Sabzian | Himself / Self |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Himself / Self |
Abolfazl Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Mehrdad Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Monoochehr Ahankhah | Himself / Self |
Mahrokh Ahankhah | Herself / Self |
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi | Herself / Self |
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni | Family Friend |
Hossain Farazmand | Reporter |
Hooshang Shamaei | Taxi Driver |
Mohammad Ali Barrati | Soldier |
Davood Goodarzi | Sergeant |
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi | Judge |
Hassan Komaili | Court Recorder |
Davood Mohabbat | Court Recorder |
Abbas Kiarostami | Himself / Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ali Reza Zarrin | Executive Producer |
Hassan Agha Karimi | Producer |