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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| Directing | Abbas Kiarostami | Director |
| Writing | Abbas Kiarostami | Writer |
| Production | Ali Reza Zarrin | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Abbas Kiarostami | Editor |
| Camera | Ali Reza Zarrindast | Director of Photography |
| Production | Hassan Aghakarimi | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Farima Zand-Pour | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Ahmad Asgari | Sound |
| Sound | Mohammad Haghighi | Sound |
| Sound | Jahangir Mirshekari | Sound |
| Sound | Hassan Zahedi | Sound |
