F for Fake (1973)
Original title: Vérités et Mensonges
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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Orson WellesSelf
Elmyr de HorySelf
Oja KodarThe Girl
Clifford IrvingSelf
Laurence HarveySelfEdith IrvingSelfDavid WalshSelf
Paul StewartSelfRichard WilsonSelf
Joseph CottenSelf
Howard HughesSelf (archive footage)Richard DrewittSelfKeywords
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What is F for Fake about?
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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F for Fake has a runtime of 89 minutes.
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