Namayeh Nazdik (Original title)Namay-E-Nazdik (Alternative title)Nemaye Nazdik (Alternative title)Close-up (Alternative title)Nama-ye Nazdik (Alternative title)Close Up (Help search title)
Date: 1989 (Copyright)Country: IranDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
Production company billing: ©The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults In Colour Subtitles
Synopsis: Drama-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...
Genre: Documentary drama
Subjects: Film production, Fraud
Releases
Date: 1990Country: IranRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Subtitles: Persian
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): PersianDistributor: BFIPlayer
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-998977
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Video materials(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-998977
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Date: 1989 (Copyright)Country: IranDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
Production company billing: ©The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults In Colour Subtitles
Synopsis: Drama-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...
Genre: Documentary drama
Subjects: Film production, Fraud
Releases
Date: 1990Country: IranRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Subtitles: Persian
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): PersianDistributor: BFIPlayer
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-998977
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Video materials(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-998977
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access