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7.4Documents 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.
Released: 1973-09-0189 minDir: Orson WellesDocumentary
Cast
- Orson Welles as Self
- Oja Kodar as The Girl
- Elmyr de Hory as Self
- Clifford Irving as Self
- Laurence Harvey as Self
- Edith Irving as Self
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Key dates
- Published
- 7 January 1977
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- mockumentary
- Country of origin
- Iran
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Screenwriter
- Oja Kodar
- Cast member
- Howard Hughes
- Composer
- Michel Legrand
- Producer
- François Reichenbach
- Cinematographer
- François Reichenbach
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Categories
1970s avant-garde and experimental films1973 American films1973 documentary films1973 English-language films1973 films1973 French-language films1973 Spanish-language filmsAmerican avant-garde and experimental filmsDocumentary films about the visual artsDocument forgeryEnglish-language documentary filmsFiction with unreliable narrators