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The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Michael Epstein with Orson Welles

The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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Length 1h53
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OriginUSA
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a 1996 documentary about the clash between newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and actor/writer/director Orson Welles over Welles's 1941 motion picture Citizen Kane, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane aired January 29, 1996, as an episode of the Public Broadcast System's The American Experience series. The documentary was narrated by Richard Ben Cramer, who co-wrote the program with Thomas Lennon.

Synopsis

In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles's own life were used in creating Kane.

Actors

Orson Welles
Paul Winfield
Peter Bogdanovich
Robert Wise
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