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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.

Close-Up is a 1990 crime and drama movie directed by Abbas Kiarostami starring Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah and Mehrdad Ahankhah. It runs 98 minutes. Viewers rate it 8.0/10 on TMDB based on 474 votes.

  • Released: 1990-05-09
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Genres: Crime, Drama
  • TMDB rating: 8.0/10

Close-Up cast

Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Farazmand, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

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