F for Fake

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.

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  • Release Date: 1973-09-01
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Director: Orson Welles

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  • Trailer

    Cast

    • Orson Welles

      Self

    • Oja Kodar

      The Girl

    • Elmyr de Hory

      Self

    • Clifford Irving

      Self

    • Laurence Harvey

      Self

    • Edith Irving

      Self

    • David Walsh

      Self

    • Paul Stewart

      Self

    • Richard Wilson

      Self

    • Joseph Cotten

      Self

    • Howard Hughes

      Self (archive footage)

    • Richard Drewett

      Self

    • Alexander Welles

      Self

    • Gary Graver

      Self

    • Andrés Vicente Gómez

      Self

    • Julio Palinkas

      Self

    • Christian Odasso

      Self

    • Françoise Widhoff

      Self

    • Peter Bogdanovich

      Self

    • William Alland

      Self

    • Mark Forgy

      Self

    • Nina van Pallandt

      Self

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