Movie: Pharos of Chaos

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Charles Brauer
Charles Brauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden

Self - Actor

Burkhard Driest
Burkhard Driest

Self

Hannes Wader
Hannes Wader

Self

Hanns Zischler
Hanns Zischler

Self

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    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.

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    1983-10-13

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    6.5

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