F for Fake

Name: F for Fake
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1973-09-01
Rating: 7.393
Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Laurence Harvey

1973·1h 29m

7.4/ 10 (356 votes)

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

Documentary

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.