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    F for Fake

    Poster of the movie F for Fake
    1973     Documentary    
    France/Germany/Iran
    1h 27min
    Original lang: English, French, Spanish

    Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career -- the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes -- not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.

    Directed byOrson Welles
    Written byOrson Welles

    Featuring

    Orson Welles
    Oja Kodar
    Laurence Harvey
    Peter Bogdanovich
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