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

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.

Top Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Self

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

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Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

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Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier