F for Fake

(1973)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 376 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1973

Runtime: 89 мин

Country: France, Germany

Director: Орсон Уэллс, Франсуа Рейшенбах

Cast: Орсон Уэллс, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Laurence Harvey, Edith Irving, David Walsh, Paul Stewart, Richard Wilson, Джозеф Коттен

Plot

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.