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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.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Self

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Himself

Mahrokh Ahankhah

Herself

Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Herself

Hossain Sabzian

Himself

Abolfazl Ahankhah

Himself

Mehrdad Ahankhah

Himself

Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant

Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Judge

Hassan Komaili

Court Recorder

Davood Mohabbat

Court Recorder

Abbas Kiarostami

Himself

Hassan Farazmand

Lui-même

Hushang Shahai

Lui-même