F for Fake (1973)

7.4/10 • 89 min • 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.

Cast

Orson Welles

Oja Kodar

Clifford Irving

Laurence Harvey

Self

Paul Stewart

Joseph Cotten

Howard Hughes

Self (archive footage)

Gary Graver

Andrés Vicente Gómez

Self

Françoise Widhoff

Peter Bogdanovich

William Alland

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