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[email protected] CANNES CLASSICS PREMIERE TCM CINEMA EXPLORES THE ENIGMATIC AND INCOMPARABLE CHARACTER THAT WAS ORSON WELLES IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY WHICH WILL PREMIERE IN CANNES ON MAY 20, 2015 Misunderstood genius, superstar, and the exclusive memories of his From the scandal of his War of the Hollywood’s fallen angel… friends and admirers. Worlds broadcast to the RKO years and Orson Welles left his indelible mark on Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, his his exile in Europe, Orson Welles looks the 20th century. eldest daughter Chris Welles, together back with humour and emotion on his with old friends Peter Bogdanovich errors, his successes, his early stage Yet how to talk about Welles without and the critic Joseph Mc Bride, deliver career and his education in the art of falling into overstatement and excess? an intimate portrait of the man who fi lm-making. Discover the man behind the myth in a shattered every rule of American fi lm- rare interview with Orson Welles making. THIS IS ORSON WELLES SPEAKERS CHRISTOPHER WELLES FEDER JOSEPH MCBRIDE HENRY JAGLOM The eldest daughter of Orson As a screenwriter, author and fi lm The director Henry Jaglom worked Welles, Christopher is the author of historian, Joseph McBride knew Orson alongside Orson Welles for many In My Father’s Shadow: a Daughter Welles and authored the Orson Welles years.