Pharos of Chaos

1983

Documentary

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.

Rating

6.464
14 votes

Popularity

0.1444

Origin & Countries

DE | de | Germany

Production

Runtime

119 min.

Status

Released

Release: 10/13/1983

Credits

Pharos of Chaos

Wolf-Eckart BühlerDirector

Pharos of Chaos

Charles BrauerSelf - Narrator (voice)

Pharos of Chaos

Sterling HaydenSelf - Actor

Pharos of Chaos

Burkhard DriestSelf

Pharos of Chaos

Hannes WaderSelf

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

3/28/2022

5 / 10

A fascinating opportunity to spend some intimate time learning about the life and career of Sterling Hayden as he lives - aged 67 (ish) - on his dilapidated Parisian barge. Unfortunately, the film allows the subject to randomly rabbit on - frequently about alcoholism, from which he clearly suffered. Without any constructive or even vaguely penetrative direction, this becomes little more than a video diary; sometimes engaging and lucid, other times completely in the realms of "Grey Gardens". It is frequently too much of a monologue - it's as if Manfred Blank was too unwilling and/or intimidated to subject Hayden to anything like the degree of interrogation necessary to elicit anything meaningful from this character who undoubtedly had something to say.

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