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Close-Up

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

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NR 1999 · 1h 38m
Drama, Crime
Starring Hossain Sabzian · Mohsen Makhmalbaf · Abbas Kiarostami
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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.

Theatrical
Dec 31, 1999
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 19, 2002
Theaters
9
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Producers
Ali Reza Zarrin, Hassan Aghakarimi
Studio
Kanoon
Original Title
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
Original Language
FA
Keywords
movie business teheran (tehran), iran reenactment filmmaker understated dignified
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Hossain Sabzian
Self
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Self
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Abbas Kiarostami
Self

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