Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 7th, 1977
Original Language:French
Executive Producers:François Reichenbach
Production Companies:SACI, Les Films de l'Astrophore, Janus Film und Fernsehen
Audience Score
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.
