Close-Up (1990)
Original title: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
Close-Up is a 1990 Persian-language crime movie directed by Abbas Kiarostami, with a running time of 1h 38m. It stars Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah and Mahrokh Ahankhah.
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.
Where to watch Close-Up
Stream: Criterion Channel
Cast
- Hossain Sabzian as Self
- Monoochehr Ahankhah as Self
- Mahrokh Ahankhah as Self
- Abolfazl Ahankhah as Self
- Mehrdad Ahankhah as Self
- Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi as Self
- Hossain Farazmand as Reporter
- Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni as Family Friend
- Hooshang Shamaei as Taxi Driver
- Mohammad Ali Barrati as Soldier
- Davood Goodarzi as Sergeant
- Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi as Judge