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1990 | 98 minutes | 7.9 ★ (370)

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  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    09 May 1990

  • DirectingAbbas Kiarostami
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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