Movie · 1941
Available digitally
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
1h 59min
NR
Release: 04/17/1941
Drama
Mystery
8.0
Audience · 6281 votes
Official synopsis
Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Available to stream
- Theaters in Brazil 06/16/1941
- Streaming · HBO Max, Belas Artes à La Carte available
Where to watch Citizen Kane
Streaming
Availability in Brazil · updated 12/10/2026
Trailer for Citizen Kane
75th Anniversary Trailer · YouTube
Cast of Citizen Kane
30 actors
Orson Welles
as Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cotten
as Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore
as Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins
as Jim W. Gettys
George Coulouris
as Walter Parks Thatcher
Agnes Moorehead
as Mary Kane
Paul Stewart
as Raymond
Ruth Warrick
as Emily Norton Kane
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Erskine Sanford
as Herbert Carter
William Alland
as Jerry Thompson/Narrator
Everett Sloane
as Mr. Bernstein
Fortunio Bonanova
as Signor Matiste
Gus Schilling
as John
Philip Van Zandt
as Mr. Rawlston
Georgia Backus
as Bertha Anderson
Harry Shannon
as Jim Kane
Sonny Bupp
as Charles Foster Kane III
Buddy Swan
as Young Charles Foster Kane
Gregg Toland
as Interviewer
Don Ackerman
as Man at Party in Everglades (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
as Gino (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
as Extra (uncredited)
Demetrius Alexis
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Gene Coogan
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Art Dupuis
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Rudy Germane
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Mike Lally
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Walter Lawrence
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
John Northpole
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Victor Romito
as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland
- Editing
- Robert Wise
- Music
- Bernard Herrmann
- Production
- Orson Welles
- Screenplay
- Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Citizen Kane details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production companies
- Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
- Budget
- US$ 839,727
- Worldwide box office
- US$ 23.2 million
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