Pharos of Chaos(1983)

movie - first aired/released 1983-10-13 - 119 min - audience 6.7

Documentary

Directed by Manfred Blank, Wolf-Eckart Bühler

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.