F for Fake

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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  Orson Welles
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  Oja Kodar
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  Gary Graver
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  François Reichenbach

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  Orson Welles
  Self
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  Oja Kodar
  The Girl
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  Elmyr de Hory
  Self
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  Clifford Irving
  Self
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  Laurence Harvey
  Self
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  Edith Irving
  Self
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  David Walsh
  Self
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  Paul Stewart
  Self
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  Richard Wilson
  Self
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  Joseph Cotten
  Self
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  Howard Hughes
  Self (archive footage)
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  Richard Drewett
  Self
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  Alexander Welles
  Self
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  Gary Graver
  Self
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  Andrés Vicente Gómez
  Self
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  Julio Palinkas
  Self
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  Christian Odasso
  Self
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  Françoise Widhoff
  Self
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  Peter Bogdanovich
  Self
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  William Alland
  Self