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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…

★ 8/10 · 468 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Hossain SabzianSelf
• Monoochehr AhankhahSelf
• Mahrokh AhankhahSelf
• Abolfazl AhankhahSelf
• Mehrdad AhankhahSelf
• Nayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf
• Hossain FarazmandReporter
• Ahmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend

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