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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Film Cast:

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

Film Crew:

• Editor: Abbas Kiarostami
• Executive Producer: Ali Reza Zarrin
• Director of Photography: Ali Reza Zarrindast
• Sound: Hassan Zahedi
• Producer: Hassan Aghakarimi
• Sound: Jahangir Mirshekari
• Sound: Ahmad Asgari
• Makeup Artist: Farima Zand-Pour
• Sound: Mohammad Haghighi

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