Genre: Drama
Year of production: 1941
Nacionality: U.S.
Direction: Orson Welles.
Script: Herman J. Manckiewicz and Orson Welles.
Photography: Gregg Toland.
Music: Bernard Herrmann.
Production company: Mercury Theatre for R.K.O. Radio Pictures.
Length: 119 minutes.
Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, William Alland, Ray Collins, Paul Stewart and Ruth Warrick.
Synopsis: Following the death of the multimillonaire Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), owner of seven newspapers, 13 magazines and a radio station, a group of journalists watch a film summing up the magnate's life. One of them, Thompson (William Alland) is told by the editor in chief to dig deeper into the controversial figure of of Kane on the basis of a word he whispered as he died: rosebud. Thomson talks with some of the people closest to Kane such as his second wife Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), his friend Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and his butler Raymond (Paul Stewart).
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