Release date: 09/01/1973
Genres:
Documentary
Countries:
France
Germany
Islamic Republic of Iran
Rating:
7.4
A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.
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.
Orson Welles
Self
Oja Kodar
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Elmyr de Hory
Self
Clifford Irving
Self
Laurence Harvey
Self
Paul Stewart
Self
Joseph Cotten
Self
Howard Hughes
Self (archive footage)
Gary Graver
Self
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Self
Françoise Widhoff
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Nina van Pallandt
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