Citizen Kane - Blu-ray

Orson Welles, Hollywood's naughty child, was already twenty-five when he made this legendary drama, which became a milestone in the development of film language and narrative techniques. Welles conceived of his directorial debut as a reconstruction of the fictional tycoon Kane's life, compiled by a journalist - using newsreels, interviews with memoirs, etc. The gradually refined image of the title character loses its original glamour - it turns out that money and power do not guarantee happiness. Citizen Kane aroused a scandal at the time of its release because the billionaire press magnate William Randolph Hearst took the story he told upon himself. Although the film received only one of its nine Oscar nominations in 1941 (for a screenplay co-written by Welles himself and Herman J. Mankiewicz), it has since gone on to win many prestigious polls from the world's most respected critics...