Pharos of Chaos
1983•PG-13•1h 59m•6.7•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Manfred Blank
Writer
Hella Kothmann
Languages
English, French, German
Cast
Charles Brauer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sterling Hayden
Self - Actor
Burkhard Driest
Self
Hannes Wader
Self
Hanns Zischler
Self
Production
Producer
Wolf-Eckart Bühler
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