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1999 · Rated NR · 1h 38m · Abbas Kiarostami

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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.

Starring Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah

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