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F for Fake
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Oja Kodar | ... |
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Richard Wilson | ... |
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Alexander Welles | ... |
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Gary Graver | ... |
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Andrés Vicente Gómez | ... |
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Julio Palinkas | ... |
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Christian Odasso | ... |
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Françoise Widhoff | ... |
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Plot Synopsis
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Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience. Written by Anonymous
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Release Date:
12 March 1975 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Trivia
Welles filmed a trailer that lasted for nine minutes and featured several shots of a topless Oja Kodar. The trailer was rejected by the US distributors. See more »Goofs
The word "practitioners" is misspelled "practioners" in the opening credits. See more »Quotes
Orson Welles: [quoting a phenomenal art forger] Do you think I should confess? To what? Committing masterpieces?See more »
Orson Welles's final completed movie deals with fakery, and in particular with two of the most notorious forgers of the twentieth century. "F is for Fakes" (also called "F for Fake") is not really a movie or documentary as much as a look at how we interpret art, and what we WANT to interpret about anything that is essentially fake. Welles proudly calls himself a charlatan while performing magic tricks and coming up with all sorts of ways to play with the audience. I personally had never heard of Elmyr de Hory until watching this, but Welles turns him into a very interesting person.
All in all, the director known as a boy genius had a fine end to his career. Welles created a truly mind-bending look at the concept of art. The fact that the movie came out around the time that Clifford Irving's scandal broke (he wrote a forged biography of Howard Hughes) certainly adds to the documentary's quality. Can there truly be any more definite reality left in the world?