| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Films from Iran |
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Films from Iran.
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| 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 |
| Notes |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990 by Farabi Cinema Foundation |
| Credits |
Director/screenplay/editor, Abbas Kiarostami, executive producer, Ali Reza Zarrin, photography, Ali Reza Zarrin-Dast |
| Cast |
Hossain Sabzian (himself), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (himself), Abolfazl Ahankhah (father of the family) |
| Notes |
DVD; Dolby stereo; Region 1 |
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Farsi dialogue with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Drama.
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| SUBJECT |
Iran http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039880 -- Drama.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001612
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin.
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Kiarostami, Abbas.
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Facets Video (Firm)
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Bunyād-i Sīnimāyī-i Fārābī.
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