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Citizen Kane(Movie, 1941)

PG
| 1h 59min | Genres: Mystery, Drama
Citizen KaneRating: 4.0/5 (with 25502,550 votes)
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, 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, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives. After the Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege. Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane with Herman J. Mankiewicz. Principal photography took place in 1940, the same year its innovative trailer was shown, and the film was released in 1941. Upon its release, Hearst prohibited any mention of the film in his newsp... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Citizen Kane

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Board of Review Award for Best Film Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Sound

About Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 29 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 05/06/1941 (World premiere: 04/17/1941)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El ciudadano"
"Obcan Kane"
"Ciudadano Kane"
"시민 케인"
"O Mundo a Seus Pés"
Budget: 839,727 USD
Revenue: 23,218,000 USD (= 2,765%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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