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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.

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Duration:

98 min

Cast:

Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

Quality:

HD

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Release:

1990

Country:

Iran

Rating:

8.0