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A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved

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.

  • Genre: Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 1990-05-09
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Country: Iran
  • Language: Azerbaijani, Persian
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 7.936
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