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IMDB ID: tt0100234

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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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Hossain Sabzian

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Monoochehr Ahankhah

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

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Hossain Farazmand

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

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Hooshang Shamaei

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

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Abbas Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami

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