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F for Fake&#;(French:&#;Vérités et mensonges, "Truths and lies") is the last major film completed by&#;Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in , it focuses on&#;Elmyr de Hory's&#;recounting of his career as a professional&#;art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures ofauthorship&#;and&#;authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art. Loosely a&#;documentary, the film operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of&#;film essay.

Far from serving as a traditional documentary on Elmyr de Hory, the film also incorporates Welles's companion&#;Oja Kodar, notorious "hoax-biographer"&#;Clifford Irving, and Orson Welles as himself.

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Several narratives are woven together throughout the film, including those of de Hory, Irving, Welles, Howard Hughes and Kodar.

About de Hory, we learn that he was a struggling artist who turned to forgery out of desperation, only to see the greater share of the profits from his deceptions go to doubly unscrupulous art dealers. As partial compensation for that injustice, he is maintained in a villa in Ibiza by one of his dealers. What is only hinted at in Welles's documentary is that de Hory had recently served a two-month sentence in a Spanish prison for homosexuality and consorting with criminals. (De Hory would commit suicide a few years after the release of Welles' film, on hearing that Spain had agreed to turn him over to the French authorities.)

Irving's original part in&#;F for Fake&#;was as de Hory's biographer, but his part grew unexpectedly at some point during production. There has not always been agreement among commentators over just how that production unfolded, but the now-accepted story&#;is that the director François Reichenbach shot a documentary about de Hory and Irving before giving his footage to Welles, who then shot additional foot

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    F for Fake is a film, released in in the United States. The film focuses on the life of Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger and forgery in general. It is notable for being Orson Welles final film, which today is renowned as being the procurer of modern editing.

    Directed by Orson Welles. Written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar.

    Orson Welles

    • Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery and fraud, about lies. Tell it by the fireside or in a marketplace or in a movie, almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you'll hear from us is really true and based on solid facts.
    • Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.
    • I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since.
    • Paris was suffering from August. This happens every year. It shuts down, closes up, and this is the time when an invader could take the country by telephone if he could get somebody to answer it.
    • For my next experiment ladies and gentleman, I would appreciate the loan of any small personal object form your pocket. A key, box of matches, a coin - ah, key it is, good sir. Hold it up 10 feet over your head and watch out for the slightest hint of hanky panky and behold before our very eyes a transformation! We've changed your key into a coin. What happened to the key? It's been returned to you. Look closely, sir, you'll find the key back in your pocket. May we see it please? What's that
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    Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; Budapest, April 14, – Ibiza, December 11, ) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger, who is said to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (); a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (); and a biography by Mark Forgy, "The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist" ().

    On December 11, , de Hory's live-in bodyguard and companion, Mark Forgy, informed him that the Spanish government had agreed to extradite de Hory to France. Shortly thereafter de Hory took an overdose of sleeping pills, and asked Forgy to accept his decision, not to intervene or prevent him from taking his life. However, Forgy later went for help to take de Hory to a local hospital, though, en route, he died in Forgy's arms. Clifford Irving has expressed doubts about de Hory's death, claiming that he may have faked his own suicide in order to escape extradition, but Forgy has dismissed this theory.

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