Overview
Plot
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a wealthy industrialist. That deeply wounding event shapes every well-meaning, tyrannical, or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life.
- Directors
- Orson Welles
- Cast
- Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford, William Alland, Everett Sloane, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Buddy Swan, Gregg Toland, Don Ackerman
- Country
- United States of America
- Genre
- Mystery, Drama
- Release date
- 1941-04-17
- Studios
- Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
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Citizen Kane follows Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate who was separated from his mother in childhood and placed under the guardianship of a rich industrialist. The film traces how that early trauma echoes through his later choices, with each well-meaning, tyrannical, or self-destructive act appearing to stem from the wound of that loss.
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