F for Fake (1973)
A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.
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.
Release: 1973-09-01
Runtime: 89 min
Rating: 7.383 / 10
Cast
Orson Welles
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Oja Kodar
Elmyr de Hory
Clifford Irving
Laurence Harvey
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Edith Irving
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David Walsh
Paul Stewart
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Richard Wilson
Joseph Cotten
Howard Hughes
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Richard Drewett
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Alexander Welles
Gary Graver
Andrés Vicente Gómez
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Julio Palinkas
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Christian Odasso
Françoise Widhoff