Citizen Kane (1941) is an American drama film directed, co-written, produced, and starring Orson Welles. The film follows the life and career of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, from his rise to power to his ultimate downfall. The
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.