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.
Genres:
Orson Welles as Self
Oja Kodar as The Girl
Elmyr de Hory as Self
Clifford Irving as Self
Laurence Harvey as Self
Edith Irving as Self
David Walsh as Self
Paul Stewart as Self
Richard Wilson as Self
Joseph Cotten as Self
Howard Hughes as Self (archive footage)
Richard Drewett as Self
Alexander Welles as Self
Gary Graver as Self
Andrés Vicente Gómez as Self
Julio Palinkas as Self
Christian Odasso as Self
Françoise Widhoff as Self
Peter Bogdanovich as Self
William Alland as Self
Mark Forgy as Self
Nina van Pallandt as Self
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