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F for Fake

Original title: Vérités et Mensonges

A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.

  • Movie
  • 1973
  • PG
  • 1h 29m

Directed by Orson Welles and François Reichenbach

7.4

TMDB audience rating
7.4 out of 10 from 387 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Orson Welles

    Orson WellesSelf

  • Oja Kodar

    Oja KodarThe Girl

  • Elmyr de HorySelf

  • Clifford Irving

    Clifford IrvingSelf

  • Laurence Harvey

    Laurence HarveySelf

  • Edith IrvingSelf

  • David WalshSelf

  • Paul Stewart

    Paul StewartSelf

  • Richard WilsonSelf

  • Joseph Cotten

    Joseph CottenSelf

  • Howard Hughes

    Howard HughesSelf (archive footage)

  • Richard DrewettSelf

  • Andrés Vicente Gómez

    Andrés Vicente GómezSelf

  • Julio PalinkasSelf

  • Christian OdassoSelf

  • Françoise Widhoff

    Françoise WidhoffSelf

  • Peter Bogdanovich

    Peter BogdanovichSelf

  • William Alland

    William AllandSelf

Director
Orson Welles and François Reichenbach
Writer
Orson Welles and François Reichenbach
Music
Michel Legrand
Cinematography
François Reichenbach