F for Fake 1973

Directed by Orson Welles

1h 29m · documentary · Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory

7.4 on TMDB

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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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