
About
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...
Cast

Michel Legrand

Orson Welles
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Elmyr de Hory
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Clifford Irving
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Oja Kodar
The Girl

Laurence Harvey
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Joseph Cotten
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Edith Irving
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David Walsh
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