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A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

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.

CastCrewDetailsGenres

Hossain SabzianSelf

MMonoochehr AhankhahSelf

MMahrokh AhankhahSelf

AAbolfazl AhankhahSelf

MMehrdad AhankhahSelf

NNayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf

HHossain FarazmandReporter

AAhmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend

HHooshang ShamaeiTaxi Driver

MMohammad Ali BarratiSoldier

DDavood GoodarziSergeant

HHaj Ali Reza AhmadiJudge

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