Close-Up (1990)

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.

• Release Date: 1990-02-01
• Runtime: 1h 38min
• Production Company: Kanoon
• Production Country: Iran
• Director: Abbas Kiarostami