F for fake
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | F for fake |
| Original title | F for fake |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Iran |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Orson Welles |
| script | Orson Welles, Oja Kodar |
| production | François Reichenbach |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| camera | Gary Graver |
| cut | Marie-Sophie Dubus, Dominique Engerer, Orson Welles |
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F for Fake (English F for Fake ) is a film by Orson Welles , which deals ironically with the topic of art, forgery, authorship and authenticity. The focus of the film essay, designed as a mockumentary , is the internationally known art forger Elmyr de Hory . In addition to the controversial art forger de Hory, numerous other people have their say, including the no less controversial writer Clifford Irving , who wrote both a well-known falsified biography about the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes and an authorized but not necessarily credible biography about de Hory would have. The film doesn't take the "truth" itself too seriously, which is essentially Welles' intention.
"Welles believed that he [with F for fake ] was not making a documentary so much as a new kind of film."
Web links
- F for Fake in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- F for Fake at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- F as in forgery at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ F for fake. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Died: Elmyr de Hory , in: Der Spiegel, December 20, 1976, last accessed on November 5, 2018.
- ↑ The wages of sin , in: Der Spiegel of March 20, 1972, last accessed on November 5, 2018
- ↑ Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F For Fake by Jonathan Rosenbaum from April 25, 2005 in: The Criterion Collection , last accessed on November 6, 2018.