F For Fake, released as Vérités et Mensonges in France in 1974, was Orson Welles’ last film. He was the mind behind the War of the World media radio scare of 1938 and made the hoax the focus of the film.
The film follows two media “fakers” of media Elmyr de Hory a painter of counterfeits and Clifford Irving, author of the false biography of Howard Hughes. The film is so based on hoax it is hard to get what is true and challenges the line of reality/film.
The film was created using documentary footage by French director François Reichenbach which Welles bought and then hired the man as his cinematographer.
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