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"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.

Top Cast

  • Hossain Sabzian

    Hossain Sabzian

    Self

  • Monoochehr Ahankhah

    Monoochehr Ahankhah

    Self

  • Mahrokh Ahankhah

    Mahrokh Ahankhah

    Self

  • Abolfazl Ahankhah

    Abolfazl Ahankhah

    Self

  • Mehrdad Ahankhah

    Mehrdad Ahankhah

    Self

  • Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

    Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

    Self

  • Hossain Farazmand

    Hossain Farazmand

    Reporter

  • Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

    Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

    Family Friend

  • Hooshang Shamaei

    Hooshang Shamaei

    Taxi Driver

Overview

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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7.9 / 10
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