Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.

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Special features of these DVDs: audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosebuam, authors of Abbas Kiarostami ; "The Traveler," director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature ; "Close-up" long shot, a documentary on Close-up's central figure, Hossein Sabzian, six years after the film ; new video interview with Kiarostami ; "A walk with Kiarostami," a documentary portrait of the director of Iranion film professor Jamsheed Akrami ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Photography, Ali Reza Zarrin-Dast ; editor, Abbas Kiarostami.

Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

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.

Not rated.

DVD.

In Persian, with English subtitles.