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Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Written by Abbas Kiarostami

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.

Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Hossain Sabzian

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

Abolfazl Ahankhah

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

Mehrdad Ahankhah

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

Mahrokh Ahankhah

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

Monoochehr Ahankhah

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Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Judge

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

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Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant