Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
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.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Ali Reza Zarrin (Executive Producer)
Mohammad Haghighi (Sound)
Jahangir Mirshekari (Sound)
Farima Zand-Pour (Makeup Artist)
Hassan Aghakarimi (Producer)
Hassan Zahedi (Sound)
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Ahmad Asgari (Sound)
MORE CAST
Davood Goodarzi, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi, Hassan Komaili, Davood Mohabbat, Hassan Farazmand, Hushang Shahai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami