F for Fake

Release Date: 1973-09-01

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.

Rating: 7.4 / 10

Cast

Orson Welles

as Self

Oja Kodar

as The Girl

Elmyr de Hory

as Self

Clifford Irving

as Self

Laurence Harvey

as Self

Crew

Richard Drewett - Associate Producer
Paul Bertault - Sound Mixer
Orson Welles - Director
Dominique Antoine - Producer
Orson Welles - Writer

Reviews

C_Hickcock:

This movie is a masterpiece -- it is equal parts an insightful essay, a magic trick and a prank. Welles considered it a new type of film -- its subject matter explores what is a forgery/counterfeit vs...