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.
Made in FR
7.4/10
1973
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Cast
Orson Welles
As Self
Oja Kodar
As The Girl
Elmyr de Hory
As Self
Clifford Irving
As Self
Laurence Harvey
As Self
Edith Irving
As Self
David Walsh
As Self
Paul Stewart
As Self
Richard Wilson
As Self
Joseph Cotten
As Self
Howard Hughes
As Self (archive footage)
Richard Drewett
As Self
Alexander Welles
As Self
Gary Graver
As Self
Andrés Vicente Gómez
As Self
Julio Palinkas
As Self
Christian Odasso
As Self
Françoise Widhoff
As Self
Peter Bogdanovich
As Self
William Alland
As Self
Mark Forgy
As Self
Nina van Pallandt
As Self
François Reichenbach
As Self
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