IRAN · 1990
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Iranian New Wave
identity and impersonation
cinema and filmmaking
reality versus fiction
artistic creation
deception and fraud
Synopsis
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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