Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age 10, a director of Shakespeare at 14, a painter at 16, a star of stage and radio at 20, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Rita Hayworth. His work was similarly extraordinary, most notably Citizen Kane, (considered by many to be the most important movie ever made), created by Welles when he was only 25.
Direction Chuck Workman
Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Peter Brook · Costa-Gavras · Steven Spielberg · Martin Scorsese · Richard Linklater · Frank Marshall · Paul Mazursky · Wolfgang Puck · Norman Lloyd · Walter Murch · Peter Bogdanovich · Christopher Welles Feder · Simon Callow · Joanne Hill Styles · John Houseman · William Friedkin · Dolores del Rio · Richard Wilson · Robert Wise · Oja Kodar · Buck Henry · Richard Benjamin · Sydney Pollack · Dennis Hopper · George Lucas · Anthony Perkins
Soundtrack Bernard Herrmann · Erik Satie · Michel Legrand · Elliot Goldenthal
Screenplay Chuck Workman
Cinematography John Sharaf · Tom Hurwitz · Michael Lisnet
Original title Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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