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Movie
Type
1990
Year
1h 38m
Runtime
★ 8.1
Rating
Crime / Documentary / Drama
Genre

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.