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Pharos of Chaos
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Pharos of Chaos

Oct 13, 1983
1h 59m
★ 6.5

Overview

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Charles Brauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charles Brauer

Sterling Hayden

Self - Actor

Sterling Hayden

Burkhard Driest

Self

Burkhard Driest

Hannes Wader

Self

Hannes Wader

Hanns Zischler

Self

Hanns Zischler

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