F for Fake
1973 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 18,939 VOTES · DIR. Orson Welles
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,432 lines
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00:00:21 For my next experiment, ladies and gentlemen...
00:03:59 - I'm not an actor. - Not an actor? Elmyr?
00:10:23 and that he must have been cooking it up when we were filming him.
00:13:53 I wandered around Europe for a time.
00:17:00 How much is that drawing worth on the market today?
00:20:47 A peculiar moment during a lunch party.
00:24:12 In this catalog was this Modigliani...
00:27:57 My signature, forged by Elmyr on a real Elmyr...
00:31:15 that Hughes himself wanted us to believe almost anything?
00:34:21 Elmyr was a good teacher, if only by example...
00:37:38 Et voilà.
00:40:52 As for this Hungarian's own tales of his own lurid past...
00:43:51 He say, "I don't have it. " I say, "Then keep your three others, even if they were very cheap. "
00:47:23 And so did I. My paintings were gone...
00:50:40 And to testify to yet another coincidence, here's a leading film director.
00:54:07 On this planet...
00:57:21 In two years, Cliff, you are going to write "The Book About the book About the Book. "
01:00:34 flying high above his troubles.
01:04:09 they would have to have two witnesses...
01:08:20 For this true story, and with her kind collaboration...
01:14:35 the results of this encounter were, to say the least of it...
01:18:22 And then there came a sudden...
01:21:42 "Well, señor...
01:25:09 "Give me my pictures," said Picasso.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,432
Dialogue density16.1 lines / min
First line00:00:21
Final line01:25:09
Production Record
DirectorOrson Welles
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes18,939