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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.

Cast

Hossain Sabzian

Self

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

N/A

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

N/A

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

N/A

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

N/A

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

N/A

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

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Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant

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Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Judge