F for Fake
Vérités et Mensonges
Release: 1973-09-01
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 7.4
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
France
Germany
Iran
Production Companies
SACI
Les Films de l'Astrophore
Janus Film und Fernsehen
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Gary Graver
as Self
Clifford Irving
as Self
Laurence Harvey
as Self
Howard Hughes
as Self (archive footage)
Françoise Widhoff
as Self
William Alland
as Self
Oja Kodar
as The Girl
Peter Bogdanovich
as Self
Orson Welles
as Self
Elmyr de Hory
as Self
Joseph Cotten
as Self
Andrés Vicente Gómez
as Self
Paul Stewart
as Self
Nina van Pallandt
as Self
