This documentary, made in 1997 by Yellow Cottage Productions for the Norwegian Film Institute, is the film F FOR FAKE might have been had director Orson Welles played it straight. With investigative zeal, it tracks the career and claims of art forger Elmyr de Hory, from the cloudy circumstances of his birth to his equally mysterious death.
In F FOR FAKE, director Orson Welles uses excerpts from a 1972 press conference that Howard Hughes conducted, by telephone, in order to discredit the Clifford Irving “autobiography” of him. In the following piece, audio of Hughes’s answers is accompanied by text of the reporters’ questions.
Learn how a master storyteller shaped his characters from their noses down.
