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Close-up = Nema-ye nazdik / Farabi Cinema Foundation ; producer, Ali Reza Zarrin ; screenplay, editor, director, Abbas Kiarostami.
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.I43 C56 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Sabzian, Hossain--Drama.
- Sabzian, Hossain.
- Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin--Drama.
- Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin.
- Impersonators--Drama.
- Impersonators.
- Iran--Drama.
- Iran.
- Deception--Iran--Drama.
- Deception.
- Mistaken identity--Iran--Drama.
- Mistaken identity.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Drama.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures, Iranian.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Nema-ye nazdik
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Facets Video, c2001.
- Language Note:
- Farsi dialogue with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- Summary:
- This docudrama comments on Iranian society. Ali Sabzian claims to a fellow passenger on the bus that he is the famous Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. He then becomes involved with his fellow passenger and her family, claiming that he has cast the family's son in a major role. At some point this tale comes unravelled, and the family takes him to court. A well-meaning judge persuades the family to drop the charges against this unemployed man. Ironically, while Ali is on trial, the maker of this current film (Abbas Kiarostami) decides to film the proceedings, and also stages reconstruction of the events leading up to the trial, using all the actual participants, but has the restaged trial end less happily.
- Participant:
- Hossein Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Ali Reza Zarrin-Dast
- Notes:
- DVD release of the film produced in 1990.
- Additional DVD features: interview with Abbas Kiarostami and filmographies of Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
- ISBN:
- 156580273X
- OCLC:
- 49527102
- Publisher Number:
- 736899031060
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