Citizen Kane: The Man Who Had Everything — Except What He Wanted
Before Citizen Kane, Orson Welles conquered radio. Then, at just twenty-five, Hollywood gave him extraordinary freedom to make his first motion picture—and he created a film that changed cinema.
But beneath the revolutionary camera work, deep-focus photography, fractured memories, newspaper empires and battle with William Randolph Hearst lies a surprisingly simple human tragedy.
Charles Foster Kane spends his life making everything bigger: his fortune, his newspapers, his ambitions, his collection and finally the vast palace of Xanadu. Yet the more he possesses, the less he seems to have.
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