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F for Fake

  • 19731973
  • PGPG
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Orson Welles in F for Fake (1973)
A documentary about fraud and fakery.
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A documentary about fraud and fakery.A documentary about fraud and fakery.A documentary about fraud and fakery.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
17K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
17,599
843
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    • Directors
      • Orson Welles
      • Gary Graver(uncredited)
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Orson Welles
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Orson Welles(voice)
      • Oja Kodar
      • François Reichenbach
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Orson Welles
      • Gary Graver(uncredited)
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Orson Welles
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Orson Welles(voice)
      • Oja Kodar
      • François Reichenbach
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 65User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 wins

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    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    • Self - Narrator
    • (voice)
    Oja Kodar
    Oja Kodar
    • Self - The Girl
    François Reichenbach
    • Self - Special Participant
    Elmyr de Hory
    Elmyr de Hory
    • Self
    Clifford Irving
    Clifford Irving
    • Self
    Laurence Harvey
    Laurence Harvey
    • Self
    Edith Irving
    • Self
    David Walsh
    • Self
    Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart
    • Self - Special Participant
    Richard Wilson
    • Self - Special Participant
    Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten
    • Self - Special Participant
    Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Richard Drewett
    • Self - Associate Producer
    Alexander 'Sasha' Welles
    • Self
    • (as Sasa Devcic)
    Gary Graver
    • Special Participant
    Andrés Vicente Gómez
    Andrés Vicente Gómez
    • Special Participant
    • (as Andres Vincente Gomez)
    Julio Palinkas
    • Special Participant
    Christian Odasso
    • Special Participant
    • Directors
      • Orson Welles
      • Gary Graver(uncredited)
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Orson Welles
      • Oja Kodar(uncredited)
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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.
    • Goofs
      The word "practitioners" is misspelled "practioners" in the opening credits.
    • Quotes

      Orson Welles: Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

    • Connections
      Edited into Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (1976)

    User reviews65

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    Top review
    9/10
    The masterful legacy of the man who changed the history of modern cinema
    "F for fake" stands for the last movie Orson Welles really directed and, as for many artistic legacies it's the final demonstration of the genius of the artist, becoming some kind of briefing of his entire career.

    It's hard to explain this movie and why I really enjoyed because, as many other Welles's movies, it's full of surprises and twists.

    Filmed as a Documentary, this film introduces us the personae of Elmyr, a painter who lives out of painting copies of famous pictures of Van Gogh, Picasso, Vlaminck and many others and making them look like they're the original one. Welles also introduces to us two more people; an actress and a biographer.

    With many resemblances to Welles's own life, the director of such wonderful pieces as "Citizen Kane" and "Touch of Evil" plays with the audience some sort of magical trickery. What is real and what is not? If Elmyr is able to paint a perfect copy of a famous picture and fool the world greatest experts, is he as good artist as the originals he's copying?

    Working as a perfect metaphore of Welles own experiences in art (he's not only been movie director but radio speaker and even painter) "F for Fake" remains as a perfect legacy of the ideas of one of the greatest and most gifted cinema artists. Don't miss it!
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    • Release date
      • March 12, 1975 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Iran
      • West Germany
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Hoax
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films de l'Astrophore
      • SACI
      • Janus Film und Fernsehen
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $10,206
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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