Drama · Mystery
Fedora
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
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William Holden
Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler
Marthe Keller
Fedora
Hildegard Knef
Countess Sobryanski
José Ferrer
Doctor Vando
Frances Sternhagen
Miss Balfour
Mario Adorf
Corfu Hotel Manager
Stephen Collins
Young Barry
Henry Fonda
President of the Academy
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Production
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6/106/4/2023
Perhaps not one of Billy Wilder's most famous of films, but this penultimate effort is certainly one of his more intriguing. The story is told starting from the moment of the death of the actress "Fedora" (Marthe Keller) and so it is basically about the circumstances that led to her being hit by a train (suicide/accident?). William Holden ("Dutch Detweiler") has seen better days as an Hollywood producer, and so determines to try and lure the legendary star from her reclusive existence in her Greek villa; surrounded by a rather acolytic coterie as obsessed with their own interests as with those of the actress; and at points we are not quite sure of the extent to which her housebound existence is entirely voluntary. Hildegard Knef ("The Countess") and José Ferrer ("Dr. Vando") add further to
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