F for Fake

F for Fake  - Movie (1973)

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

Original title

Vérités et Mensonges

Released

9/1/1973

Origin country

FR

Genre

Documentary

Production companies

Janus Film und Fernsehen, Les Films de l'Astrophore, SACI

Budget

Revenue

Runtime

1hr 29min

Description

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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