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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.
🌏 Languages Available: Azerbaijani , Persian
📆 Date Released: 1990-05-09
⌚ Running Time: 98 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.9

Beloved Cast

Hossain Sabzian original image
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Hossain Sabzian
Monoochehr Ahankhah original image
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Monoochehr Ahankhah
Mahrokh Ahankhah original image
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Mahrokh Ahankhah
Abolfazl Ahankhah original image
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Abolfazl Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah original image
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Mehrdad Ahankhah
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi original image
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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Hossain Farazmand original image
Reporter
Hossain Farazmand
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni original image
Family Friend
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
Hooshang Shamaei original image
Taxi Driver
Hooshang Shamaei
Mohammad Ali Barrati original image
Soldier
Mohammad Ali Barrati
Davood Goodarzi original image
Sergeant
Davood Goodarzi
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi original image
Judge
Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi
Hassan Komaili original image
Court Recorder
Hassan Komaili
Davood Mohabbat original image
Court Recorder
Davood Mohabbat
Hassan Farazmand original image
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Hassan Farazmand
Hushang Shahai original image
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Hushang Shahai
Mohsen Makhmalbaf original image
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Abbas Kiarostami original image
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Abbas Kiarostami

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