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Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), was an Australian author who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.
White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have been awarded the prize.
White was born in Knightsbridge, London, to an English-Australian father and an English mother. His family later moved to Sydney, Australia when he was six months old. As a child he lived in a flat with his sister, a nanny, and a maid, while his parents lived in an adjoining flat.
At the age of four White developed asthma, a condition that had taken the life of his maternal grandfather. White's health was fragile throughout his childhood, which precluded his participation in many childhood activities. He loved the theatre, which he first visited at an early age. This love was expressed at home when he performed private rites in the garden and danced for his mother’s friends.
Actors: Yolandi Franken (producer), Erryn Arkin (actor), Deleece Cook (miscellaneous crew), Mark T. Rasmussen (actor), Mark T. Rasmussen (producer), Mark T. Rasmussen (writer), Mark T. Rasmussen (director), Marcus Coblyn (editor), Jack Kelly (director), Karen Lamont-Barnett (actor), David Anderson (actor), Amanda Asquith (miscellaneous crew), Dan Flynn (composer), Paul Ellis (actor), Margaret MacDonald (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Gabriel Mann (actor), Robert Clohessy (actor), Blanche Baker (actress), Thomas Edward Seymour (actor), Fisher Stevens (actor), Ken Del Vecchio (producer), Rachael Robbins (actress), Greg Nutcher (actor), Keith Collins (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), David Thornton (actor), James Noble (actor), Nick Raio (actor), Erika Smith (actress), Jana Mattioli (actress),
Plot: Daniel Jakor is one of the most prolific and successful artists the world has never heard of. Struggling to sell his own art, he soon finds his true genius lies not in the creation of his own work but in the forgery of the great masters that have come before him- artists like Picasso, Monet, Degas and Renoir. And with the help of a Tay Murphy, corrupt gallery owner in Boston, Daniel soon learns the intricacies of the art world as he becomes a true master himself. But Tay's life is spiraling out of control and his personal demons have brought him to the edge where he hangs on by a thread. Indebted to the mob for more than he can possibly pay back, Tay gets Daniel roped into working for Seamus White, the head of the Irish "family" in New England and an avid art collector. As Seamus's schemes become bolder and bolder, not only pushing the boundaries of Daniel's ability but the limits of forgery itself, there is only one person who can track him down and bring him home...his ex-fiancée who, as an authenticator with the famed auction house, Sotheby's, discovers his fakes and the depths of trouble he's really in. Can she find him before the FBI does? Or will his double-crossing the mob bring his world crashing down around him? And, more importantly, in the end, if no one knows- if they'll never know- is it really Fake?
Keywords: art-collector, artist, fake, forgeryActors: Otto Simánek (actor), Ota Sklencka (actor), Josef Bláha (actor), Jan Preucil (actor), Vlastimil Brodský (actor), Jirí Schmitzer (actor), Karel Hábl (actor), Petr Kostka (actor), Petr Kostka (actor), Svatopluk Benes (actor), Jirí Lábus (actor), Vladimír Mensík (actor), Vladimír Hrabánek (actor), Petr Nározný (actor), Jirí Sovák (actor),
Plot: Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.
Keywords: 1940s, 1990s, absurdism, actor-playing-dual-role, backwards-time-travel, black-humor, choking-to-death, double-role, dual-role, duplication