Citizen Welles was released in the year 1999。Citizen Welles is also called as RKO 281, RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, RKO 281: La bataille de Citizen Kane, RKO 281 - tapaus Citizen Kane, RKO 281 - La batalla por ciudadano Kane, Citizen Kane - Die Hollywood-Legende, A Força。

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.

Citizen Welles actors and actresses include Brenda Blethyn, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, John Malkovich, Kerry Shale, Liev Schreiber, Melanie Griffith, Roy Scheider。