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Fedora is a french film of genre Drama directed by Billy Wilder released in USA on 15 april 1979 with William Holden
Fedora (1978)
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Add to a movie listFedora is a 1978 West German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on a novella by Tom Tryon included in his collection Crowned Heads, published in 1976. The film stars William Holden and Marthe Keller.
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The film's central character is a reclusive foreign-born actress, one of the greatest movie stars of the century, who inexplicably has retained her youthful beauty despite her advancing years. In the opening scene she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train, and among the mourners at her funeral is aging has-been Hollywood producer Barry "Dutch" Detweiler, with whom she once had a brief affair and who serves as the film's narrator.Actors
William Holden
(Barry Detweiler)
Marthe Keller
(Fedora)
Hildegard Knef
(Countess Sobryanski)
José Ferrer
(Doctor Vando)
Frances Sternhagen
(Miss Balfour)
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