F for Fake (1973)
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.
Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles as Self |
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Oja Kodar as The Girl |
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Elmyr de Hory as Self |
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Clifford Irving as Self |
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Laurence Harvey as Self |
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Edith Irving as Self |
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David Walsh as Self |
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Paul Stewart as Self |
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Richard Wilson as Self |
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Joseph Cotten as Self |
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Howard Hughes as Self (archive footage) |
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Richard Drewett as Self |
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Alexander Welles as Self |
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Gary Graver as Self |
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Andrés Vicente Gómez as Self |
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Julio Palinkas as Self |
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Christian Odasso as Self |
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Françoise Widhoff as Self |
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Peter Bogdanovich as Self |
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William Alland as Self |
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Mark Forgy as Self |
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Nina van Pallandt as Self |
| Production | Richard Drewett | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Paul Bertault | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Orson Welles | Director |
| Production | Dominique Antoine | Producer |
| Writing | Orson Welles | Writer |
| Editing | Dominique Engerer | Editor |
| Editing | Marie-Sophie Dubus | Editor |
| Production | François Reichenbach | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Michel Legrand | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Christian Odasso | Additional Photography |
| Camera | François Reichenbach | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gary Graver | Additional Photography |
| Directing | Oja Kodar | Co-Director |
| Directing | Gary Graver | Co-Director |
| Writing | Oja Kodar | Co-Writer |
| Directing | François Reichenbach | Co-Director |
| Editing | Orson Welles | Editor |
