Close-Up
98 mins
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.
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Self
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Self
Hossain Farazmand
Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
Family Friend
Hooshang Shamaei
Taxi Driver
Mohammad Ali Barrati
Soldier
Davood Goodarzi
Sergeant
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi
Judge
Hassan Komaili
Court Recorder
Davood Mohabbat
Court Recorder
Hassan Farazmand
Self
Hushang Shahai
Self
Ali Reza Zarrin
Executive Producer
Hassan Aghakarimi
Producer
Farima Zand-Pour
Makeup Artist
Ahmad Asgari
Sound
Mohammad Haghighi
Sound
Jahangir Mirshekari
Sound
Hassan Zahedi
Sound