Citizen Kane

199 minutes • 1941 • 8.2

Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece is not just a piece of film history but also great entertainment - a uncompromising showdown with the American dream. Welles' constructs a puzzle out of the mystery of the last words of a dying newspaper tycoon.

Citizen Kane is the story of the boy Charles Foster Kane who is raised by a powerful Wall Street financier. The boy then grows up and creates his own huge fortunes but is never really happy. In 1940, on his property of Xanadu, he lies on his deathbed and his last word is "Rosebud". Everybody is looking for an explanation and all his close friends have different stories to tell which link to it. Every detail contributes to an intricate weave of power, corruption and human tragedy that keeps the tension alive until the last puzzle piece is put in place.