Packet 8: Tossup 6

This director casted an actual American terrorist as a doctor who wears a fake beard in a film set on the eve of a 2000 solar eclipse. In a 1996 film by this director, a young woman magically appears when an old woman asks “who are you?” to a portrait on her rug. A film by this director ends on a freeze frame of a girl being offered a flower pot and some bread (15[1])by two actors. (15[1])This director’s childhood inspired a film in which an old man raises money for his wife’s medical treatment through a week-long cycling marathon. After they met again at a casting call, this director of Gabbeh made a film with a (*) policeman whom he had stabbed as (10[1])a teenager. At the end of a film by a [emphasize] different director, (10[3])this filmmaker gives a motorcycle ride to a man on trial for duping (10[1]-5[1])a family (-5[1])by posing (-5[1])as him. For 10 points, name this director of A Moment (-5[1])of Innocence, (10[1])whose impersonation by Hossein Sabzian (-5[1])is the subject of Abbas Kiarostami’s docufiction film Close-Up. ■END■ (0[2])

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