Movie Description
Vérités et Mensonges
(1973)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Orson Welles
- Producer : Dominique Antoine
- Writer : Orson Welles
- Editor : Dominique Engerer,Marie-Sophie Dubus,Orson Welles
- Cast : Orson Welles,Oja Kodar,Elmyr de Hory,Clifford Irving,Laurence Harvey,Edith Irving,David Walsh,Paul Stewart,Richard Wilson,Joseph Cotten,Howard Hughes,Richard Drewett,Alexander Welles,Gary Graver,Andrés Vicente Gómez,Julio Palinkas,Christian Odasso,Françoise Widhoff,Peter Bogdanovich,William Alland,Mark Forgy,Nina van Pallandt
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Facts
Original TitleVérités et Mensonges
Status Released
Release Information
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1973-09-01
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 29m
Production CompaniesSACI,Les Films de l'Astrophore,Janus Film und Fernsehen
Genres
- Documentary