F for Fake

An evocative chronicle of two infamous forgers, Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who would later take his own life to avoid further imprisonment, earned notoriety by forging and selling artworks attributed to masters such as Picasso and Matisse. Irving gained infamy for authoring a counterfeit autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he probes the core elements of fraud and the individuals who perpetrate fraud at the expense of others.