directed by: Orson Welles, year: 1973
actors: Orson Welles, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving

F for Fake is Orson Welles’s playful, metafictional documentary on truth, illusion, and authorship. It follows art forger Elmyr de Hory and biographer Clifford Irving as their celebrated hoaxes are examined, while Welles interjects with sly narration and humor. Blending documentary with performance, the film probes how stories are manufactured, contested, and believed, inviting viewers to question certainty in cinema.

Documentary, Experimental, Biographical, Meta Documentary, Hoax