Pharos of Chaos

PG-13 1983 · 119 min · ★ 6.7 · 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.

Directed by Wolf-Eckart Bühler · Written by Hella Kothmann