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DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 26, 2005
Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Country France, Iran, West Germany
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Other Titles
• Vérités et mensonges
• F for Fake (1976)
• F wie Fälschung (1976)
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Genre: Documentary
Plot: Orson Welles has a ball examining the nature of what is real and what is fake in the funny, bizarre F FOR FAKE. Four people stand at the center of this documentary: Elmyr de Hory, who some believe forged more than a thousand masterpieces, many of which hang in some of the world's most famous museums; Clifford Irving, who is not only out to prove what a fake Elmyr is but also wrote a fake biography of Howard Hughes; Oja Kodar, who claims that Pablo Picasso painted 22 canvases of her that no one has ever seen; and Welles himself, who harks back to his days creating the havoc-causing THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for radio. But the true star of the film is the editing; from absurd stock footage to shots of Welles smirking into the camera from different locations to scenes with a monkey scurrying about, the film is vastly entertaining to watch. F FOR FAKE is an underrated, underappreciated work of comic genius about the nature of reality, celebrity, and art, by a master filmmaker showing a surprisingly wicked sense of humor.
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Orson Welles
Monsieur Verdoux, The Big Brass Ring, The Magnificent Ambersons |
 | Oja Kodar
The Big Brass Ring, Don Quijote de Orson Welles, Orson Welles: The One-Man Band |
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 | Oja Kodar
Don Quijote de Orson Welles, Orson Welles: The One-Man Band, The Big Brass Ring | | | | Paul Stewart
Citizen Kane, Revenge of the Pink Panther, In Cold Blood | |
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