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- BFI identifier356916
- Date1989 (Copyright)
- Production countryIran
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama-documentary, based on the true story of an unemployed movie buff, Hossein Sabzian, who passes himself off as the celebrated movie director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, to a woman he meets on a bus. He is invited into her middle-class home and leads her family to believe that, if they finance him, they will appear in his next film. Eventually, they come to suspect he is an imposter and call the police. He ends up in jail where his trial is filmed by Kiarostami... (Synopsis) A young man who is unemployed and divorced, casually lies to a well-to-do lady on a bus that he is a well known film maker. Before long he has involved her and her family in his next film... (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
Production Company: Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young People
Executive Producer: Ali Reza Zarin
view all - CastHossein Sabziyan (himself)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (himself)
Abolfazl Ahankhah (father of the family)
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Title
Namayeh Nazdik (Original)
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Nemaye Nazdik (Alternative)
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10.5240/9A4A-E31E-CCC5-8704-C122-HCategory
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view all - ArticlesDeep Focus Jul-Dec 2002 - ArticleCinema Scope n2 Winter 2000 - ArticleFilm International v7 n2/3 Autumn 1999 - Credits, Review, SynopsisSight and Sound v7 n12 December 1997 - Credits, Review, SynopsisLe Film Francais n2369 27 Sep 1991 - Credits, Synopsisview all
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Work - 356916 - 1989 (Copyright)
Iran - Film - Fiction
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