Close-Up Long Shot
Nov 15 1996
•1h 44m
•Documentary
Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
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Hossain Sabzian
Self
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