'The director of this film knows nothing about art. It's a pity." So says Wolfgang Beltracchi, the style-swiping painter and convicted fraudster who is the curious subject of Beltracchi: The Art of ...

Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...

Art world controversy and criminality has become a documentary subgenre of late, but what sets “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” apart is how breezily compassionate it is toward a master deceiver and ...

Wolfgang Beltracchi spent 40 years forging paintings by artists such as André Derain, Max Ernst and Heinrich Campendonk. In the process, he made fools of numerous experts, auction houses, galleries ...

According to convicted art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, the best artists are those who paint with the “richest colors.” Whereas the art market, he says, merely favors whoever commands the highest ...

Winner of the German Film Award for best documentary feature, Arne Birkenstock’s account of master forger Wolfgang Beltracchi tells a story almost impossible to believe in this era of rigorous carbon ...

To museum professionals, forgery is no laughing matter. But to those whose livelihoods aren’t wrapped up in it, the subject of forgery is as perversely fascinating and fun as any crime story. A ...

This thought-provoking and amusing documentary focuses on the life and work of Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene, who for nearly four decades fooled the international art world with the biggest ...

EXCLUSIVE: Global Screen pre-sells Wolfgang Beltracchi doc [pictured]. Ukrainian-based distributor 1+1 Media has taken all Eastern Europe rights to Global Screen’s documentary Beltracchi ­ The Art of ...

Art world controversy and criminality has become a documentary subgenre of late, but what sets “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” apart is how breezily compassionate it is toward a master deceiver and ...

Focused on art forgery, this flabbergasting story expands into a full scale expose of the modern confidence game and why, after all these years, it still works. Arne Birkenstock’s fascinating ...