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Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography: Ali Reza Zarrindast
Editing: Abbas Kiarostami
Sound: M. Haqiqi
Cast: Ali Sabzian, Hasan Farazmand, Abolfarzi Ahankhah,
Hushang Shahai, Mehrdad Ahankah, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Producer: Hasan Aghakarimi
Production: Institute for the Intellectual Development
of Children and Young Adults, 37 Fajr Street, Ostad Motahari
Avenue, Tehran, Iran, tel.: 98.21.636 065, fax: 98.21.678 155
World Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation, 55 Sie-Tir
Avenue, Tehran 11358, Iran, tel.: 98.21.678 545, 678 156, fax:
98.21.678 155
35mm, Colour:CL, Length:100'
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Based on real events, Close-up tells the story of Ali Sabzian, an
unemployed, recently divorced young film buff, who assumes the
identity of the famous real-life Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
(five of whose films are visible in this year's Thessaloniki Film
Festival), and enters the life of a wealthy family to make a film
with them. Through a series of tragi-comic events, the father starts
investigating. Within a few days, the imposter is arrested. At this
point, Kiarostami and his crew enter the story to film Sabzian's
trial... The result is a masterpiece about the mechanism of and the
relationship between cinema and the viewer, filmmaking and acting,
reality and fiction. |