Close-Up (1990)

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.

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Stars:

Hossain Sabzian (Self), Monoochehr Ahankhah (Self), Mahrokh Ahankhah (Self), Abolfazl Ahankhah (Self), Mehrdad Ahankhah (Self), Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi (Self)