Forgery

Elmyr de Hory, a Hungarian forgery painter who was tired of his escape life, returned to Ibiza, Spain in 1969, became a celebrity on the island, and met the American writer Clifford Alvin. Irving). While introducing Emile de Hory, director Orson Welles also told the sensational case of Clifford Irvine's forgery of the autobiography of American aviation tycoon Howard Hughes, and then fabricated a strange incident between his girlfriend Oja Kodar and Picasso. Interweaving true and false, Orson Welles raised the question of "what is art" and the ownership of works. This film is the last complete film work of American director Orson Welles. Most of the footage comes from the BBC documentary about the Hungarian forgery painter Emile de Hory, written by Alvin Clifford and directed by French director Francois Reichenbach.