Project Author: David Mills

June 23, 2025

PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Kanoon

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

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Genre:

Crime, Drama

Runtime:

98

Released:

1990

Rating:

7.9

Budget:

$0

Box Office:

$0

WRITERS

Abbas Kiarostami

FILM OVERVIEW

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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.

DIRECTOR

Abbas Kiarostami

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PRODUCTION TEAM

Abbas Kiarostami (Writer)

Abbas Kiarostami (Director)

Abbas Kiarostami (Editor)

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Ali Reza Zarrin (Executive Producer)

Ali Reza Zarrindast (Director of Photography)

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Mohammad Haghighi (Sound)

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Jahangir Mirshekari (Sound)

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Farima Zand-Pour (Makeup Artist)

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Hassan Aghakarimi (Producer)

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Hassan Zahedi (Sound)

CAST MEMBERS

Hossain Sabzian

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

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Hossain Farazmand

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

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Hooshang Shamaei

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

MORE PRODUCTION

Ahmad Asgari (Sound)

MORE CAST

Davood Goodarzi, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi, Hassan Komaili, Davood Mohabbat, Hassan Farazmand, Hushang Shahai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami

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