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Close-Up

1990 · 98 min Crime Drama
7.9 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The director bets on details: a gesture, a glance, a pause. In a good drama this is what says the most — and that principle is upheld here.

Worth watching if you're in the mood for serious cinema. Not background viewing — it demands attention.

For viewers who can watch slow cinema and value the human element in stories.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: In quiet, in the evening. Better alone or with someone who watches films seriously.

🎭 Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Hossain Sabzian

Self

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

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Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

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Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

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