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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.
Cast
Hossain Sabzian
as Self
Monoochehr Ahankhah
as Self
Mahrokh Ahankhah
as Self
Abolfazl Ahankhah
as Self
Mehrdad Ahankhah
as Self
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
as Self
Hossain Farazmand
as Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
as Family Friend
Hooshang Shamaei
as Taxi Driver
Mohammad Ali Barrati
as Soldier
