Cinematography:
Gary GraverComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Gary Graver, Peter Bogdanovich, Laurence Harvey, Nina van Pallandt, Andrés Vicente Gómez (more)Plots(1)
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles' free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career-the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles goes on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes-not the least of which is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired examination of the essential duplicity of cinema. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Orson Welles
USA
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series) - narrator
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Joseph Cotten
USA
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The 3rd Man (1949)
Richard Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Paul Stewart
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Gary Graver
USA
Best movies:
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Bad Girls from Mars (1990)
Inferno (1997)
Peter Bogdanovich
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Opening Night (1977)
Targets (1968)
Laurence Harvey
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Room at the Top (1959)
Nina van Pallandt
Denmark
Best movies:
A Wedding (1978)
Cutter's Way (1981)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Spain
Clifford Irving
USA