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F for Fake

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

7.4 average rating
7.4
English / 89 MIN. / 1973

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Orson WellesOja KodarElmyr de HoryClifford IrvingLaurence HarveyEdith IrvingDavid WalshPaul StewartRichard WilsonJoseph CottenHoward HughesRichard DrewettAlexander WellesGary GraverAndrés Vicente GómezJulio PalinkasChristian OdassoFrançoise WidhoffPeter BogdanovichWilliam AllandMark ForgyNina van Pallandt

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