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.

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  Orson Welles

  Self
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  Clifford Irving

  Self
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  Laurence Harvey

  Self
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  Paul Stewart

  Self
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  Joseph Cotten

  Self
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  Howard Hughes

  Self (archive footage)
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  Gary Graver

  Self
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  Andrés Vicente Gómez

  Self
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  Françoise Widhoff

  Self
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  Peter Bogdanovich

  Self