Close-up, Nema-ye nazdik, Farabi Cinema ; Films from Iran
Type
Label
Close-up, Nema-ye nazdik, Farabi Cinema ; Films from Iran
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
Close-up
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
780006910
Responsibility statement
Farabi Cinema ; Films from Iran
Runtime
http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/unknown
Series statement
Films from Iran
Sub title
Nema-ye nazdik
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 procedings, 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
Technique
live action
Contributor
Is Part Of
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