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F for Fake (1973)
Directed by Orson Welles, François Reichenbach
“A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.”
Documentary · 1h 29m
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Cast
Orson Welles
Oja Kodar
Clifford Irving
Laurence Harvey
Paul Stewart
Joseph Cotten
Howard Hughes
Crew
- Director
- Orson Welles, François Reichenbach
- Writer
- Orson Welles, François Reichenbach
- Director of Photography
- François Reichenbach
- Original Music Composer
- Michel Legrand
- Editor
- Marie-Sophie Dubus, Dominique Engerer, Orson Welles
- Producer
- Dominique Antoine
Details
- Original title
- Vérités et Mensonges
- Release date
- 1973-09-01
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Countries
- France, Germany, Iran
- Production
- SACI, Les Films de l'Astrophore, Janus Film und Fernsehen