---
name: "Hossain Farazmand"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hossain-farazmand"
fi1m_id: "hossain-farazmand"
imdb_id: "nm0267115"
tmdb_id: 1118648
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:49.019753+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hossain Farazmand

## Identity

Hossain Farazmand

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hossain-farazmand
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hossain-farazmand
- **IMDb ID:** nm0267115
- **TMDB ID:** 1118648
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267115/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118648

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:** حسن فرازمند
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267115/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118648

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Close-Up*](https://film.one/film/close-up.md) (92)

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## Biography

Hossain Farazmand is an Iranian actor and journalist, also credited as Hassan Farazmand or حسن فرازمند. He is best known for portraying the reporter in Abbas Kiarostami's *Close-Up* (1990), in which he appears as himself.

Farazmand had written the article "Bogus Makhmalbaf Arrested" for the Iranian magazine *Sorush* in 1989, which brought the real-life events depicted in the film to public attention. He also appeared in the 1988 film *The Flower*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, ibna.ir.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Close-Up* (1990), Fi1m 92, as Reporter — [page](https://film.one/film/close-up.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Close-Up* (1990), as Reporter — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/close-up.md)

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