

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.

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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.

Movie / 1987

Movie / 1979

Movie / 2002

Movie / 2017

Movie / 2015

Movie / 1938

Movie / 2013

Movie / 2010

Movie / 2011

Movie / 1992

Movie / 2006

Movie / 2018

Movie / 1946

Movie / 1953

Movie / 1997

Movie / 2017

Movie / 2024

Movie / 2019

Movie / 1994

Movie / 1974