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F for Fake
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
Vérités et Mensonges
Director
Orson Welles
François Reichenbach
Orson Welles
Self
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Oja Kodar
The Girl
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Elmyr de Hory
Self
Clifford Irving
Self
Laurence Harvey
Self
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Edith Irving
Self
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David Walsh
Self
Paul Stewart
Self
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Richard Wilson
Self
Joseph Cotten
Self
Howard Hughes
Self (archive footage)
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Richard Drewett
Self
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