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1990 98 min Crime, 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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IMDb 8.2 RT 89 Metacritic 92

director Abbas Kiarostami

writer Abbas Kiarostami

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