Release Date

01 Sep, 1973

Runtime

01:29: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Vérités et Mensonges

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Actors

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

Crew

Richard Drewett

Paul Bertault

Orson Welles

Dominique Antoine

Orson Welles

Marie-Sophie Dubus

Dominique Engerer

François Reichenbach

Gary Graver

Christian Odasso

Michel Legrand

François Reichenbach

Gary Graver

Oja Kodar