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"A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved"

1990
1h 38m
7.9(414 votes)
Crime
Drama

Overview

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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Kanoon

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Cast & Crew

18 members
Acting

Hossain Sabzian

Self

Hossain Sabzian
Acting

Monoochehr Ahankhah

Self

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Mahrokh Ahankhah

Self

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Abolfazl Ahankhah

Self

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Mehrdad Ahankhah

Self

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Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

Self

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Hossain Farazmand

Reporter

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Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni

Family Friend

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Hooshang Shamaei

Taxi Driver

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Mohammad Ali Barrati

Soldier

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Davood Goodarzi

Sergeant

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Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi

Judge

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Hassan Komaili

Court Recorder

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Davood Mohabbat

Court Recorder

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Hassan Farazmand

Self

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Hushang Shahai

Self

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Self

Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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