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Citizen Kane (1941) [NR|PG]

Release Date:
April 17, 1941

Original Title:
Citizen Kane

Alternate Titles:
Den store mann
El ciudadano
O Mundo a Seus Pés
Obcan Kane
Vətəndaş Kane
Громадянен Кейн
Քաղաքացի Քեյնը
시민 케인

Genres:
Drama | Mystery

Production Companies:
Mercury Productions
RKO Radio Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  AU: G  BE: 14  BR: 12  CA: 14A  CZ: U  DE: 12  ES: A  FI: K-16  FR: TP  GB: U  GR: 13  HU: 12  IE: G  JP: R18+  KR: 15  NL: 6  NO: 15  PL: 12  PT: M/12  SE: 15  US: NR|PG 

Runtime: 119

Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

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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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1998
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2007
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1952
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Production

Art Direction:
Van Nest Polglase

Conductor:
Bernard Herrmann

Costume Design:
Edward Stevenson

Director:
Orson Welles

Director of Photography:
Gregg Toland

Editor:
Robert Wise

Original Music Composer:
Bernard Herrmann

Producer:
Orson Welles

Screenplay:
Orson Welles
Herman J. Mankiewicz

Sound Recordist:
Bailey Fesler
James G. Stewart

Special Effects:
Vernon L. Walker

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