A FRENCH FORGER

UN VRAI FAUSSAIRE

By Jean-Luc LEON

ALBUM PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2015

Guy Ribes creates under our eyes paintings which seem to be of the hand of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall …
This counterfeiter flooded the art market during 30 years. The policeman who arrested him and a swindled collector reveal his other facets.

    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Crime, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jean-Luc LEON
    • Synopsis
    • Guy Ribes's brush creates under our eyes a painting which seems to be of the hand of Picasso, another one of Matisse, then one of Chagall … 
This counterfeiter flooded the art market during 30 years. 
He reveals the secrets of his art, his rotten tricks, his childhood in a brothel, his accomplice’s gallery. 
The policeman who arrested him, the prosecutor, the judicial expert and the swindled collector reveal the other facets of this incredible character.