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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

M

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

M

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

A

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

M

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

N

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

H

Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

A

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

H

Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

M

Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

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