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Year: 1990
Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Cast:

Hossain Sabzian (Himself), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Himself), Abolfazl Ahankhah (Himself), Mehrdad Ahankhah (Himself), Monoochehr Ahankhah (Himself), Mahrokh Ahankhah (Herself), Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi (Herself), Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni (Family Friend), Hossain Farazmand (Reporter), Hooshang Shamaei (Taxi Driver), Mohammad Ali Barrati (Soldier), Davood Goodarzi (Sergeant), Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi (Judge), Hassan Komaili (Court Recorder), Davood Mohabbat (Court Recorder), Abbas Kiarostami (Himself), Abbas Kiarostami ()

Storyline:

On a bus in Tehran, an unemployed movie buff reading a published screenplay passes himself off as its author, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Invited into the home of a credulous family, the impostor announces his plan to make a film starring their adult son. The father, growing skeptical, invites a journalist to visit, who, in turn, brings the police. Having read an account of this true case, the director Abbas Kiarostami decided to make a film of it, in which each participant would reënact his own role-including Kiarostami himself. In so doing, he also gained permission to film the trial, which was presided over by religious authorities. In this 1990 masterpiece of ironic reflexivity, Kiarostami's clear, self-possessed vision reveals the dogma of others while conveying none of its own, besides a faith in the power of the cinema itself to expose the artifice on which it depends. If religion is the suppression of the evidence of the eye through the dictate of the word, such calmly unwavering images, with their wry humor and generous sympathy, have the force of a quiet, steadfast resistance. In Farsi. Richard Brody Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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