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.
Genre: Documentary Actors: Alexander Welles, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Christian Odasso, Clifford Irving, David Walsh, Edith Irving, Elmyr de Hory, Françoise Widhoff, Gary Graver, Howard Hughes, Joseph Cotten, Julio Palinkas, Laurence Harvey, Mark Forgy, Nina van Pallandt, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Drewett, Richard Wilson, William Alland Directors: Orson Welles Production: Janus Film und Fernsehen, Les Films de l'Astrophore, SACI
