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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.

Top Cast

Hossain Sabzian Self

Monoochehr Ahankhah Self

Mahrokh Ahankhah Self

Abolfazl Ahankhah Self

Mehrdad Ahankhah Self