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Close-Up
Cast
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi View AllCrew
Abbas Kiarostami (Director), Abbas Kiarostami (Writer) View All![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1egkUxDi645095duTEGcS9FGDia.jpg)
Release: May 9th, 1990
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
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![Review by mark f](/community/resize/phpThumb.php?src=/community/customavatars/avatar30418_148.gif&w=40&h=40)
Although he's found out rather quickly and charged with petty fraud, Makhmalbaf's fellow director Abbas Kiarostami makes a film of the entire episode, recreating scenes and filming Sabzian's actual trial.
![Review by kkl10](/community/resize/phpThumb.php?src=/community/customavatars/avatar84186_1.gif&w=40&h=40)
It's not easy to understand how striking this film really is without seeing it with our own eyes, there's no actors here, all the people we see are the real people involved in the staged (and non-staged) case, they represent themselves.
![Review by Okay](/community/resize/phpThumb.php?src=/community/customavatars/avatar95618_35.gif&w=40&h=40)
It tells the true story of Hossain Sabzian and his unusual crime: fraud and attempted fraud.Thoughts: "Close-Up" is an extremely hard film to categorise, and that is a great thing in this case, Kiarostami merges the documentary style with drama by being able to shoot the raw and real footage of this....