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.
Released: 1975
Genre:
Documentary
Casts:
Orson Welles, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Oja Kodar, Laurence Harvey, Joseph Cotten, Edith Irving, David Walsh, Paul Stewart, Richard Wilson, Richard Drewitt, Alexander Welles, Gary Graver, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Julio Palinkas, Christian Odasso, Françoise Widhoff, Peter Bogdanovich, William Alland, Mark Forgy, Nina van Pallandt, Howard Hughes