Close-Up
Feb 01, 1990 | IMDB 8
98 min Watch NowCrime, Drama
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.
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Mária Kerényi, 41, July 1970
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