Orson Welles (1915-1985) is a famous American film director.

His film “Citizen Kane,” the script of which is included in this collection, has become a classic of world cinema. No less famous are Wells's Shakespearean adaptations of Othello and Macbeth, the creation of which, as well as his other acting and directing works, is described in the book. The collection includes: the script “The Print of Evil”, articles, interviews, the detective novel “Mr. Arkadin”.

The edition is illustrated.

Recommended to a wide range of readers.

Contents: K. Razlogov. The great myth-maker Articles, interviews Experimentation Shakespeare and traditions Dead end of moralism Script crisis Interview with Cahiers du Cinema magazine (André Bazin, Charles Bitch, Jean Domarchi) Interview with the Sunday Times Journey to the land of Don Quixote (Interview with Juan Cobos, Miguel Rubio and José Pruneda) So where are we Shall we go?* Academy Award Speech for Lifetime Achievement* Filming Othello (Two Voiceover Excerpts)* The Enfant Terrible Who Never Lost His Innocence (An Interview with Leslie Megan)* Orson Welles at the French Cinematheque* Narrator immortal stories (Interview with the magazine "Avant-Sen. Cinema")* Fourth interview with the magazine "Cahiers du Cinema" (Alain Bergala and Jean Narboni) Scripts Citizen Kane (script) Print of Evil (film editing) War of the Worlds (radio show) Mister Arkadin (novel) )A comment. N. TsyrkunFilmography. Compiled by N. Tsyrkun* Articles and interviews written after May 1973 are marked with asterisks