Fiction Factory’s latest feature-length documentary SWAN SONG: THE STORY OF BILLY WILDER’S FEDORA has just completed production. SWAN SONG features exclusive interviews with FEDORA’s stars Marthe Keller, Michael York and Mario Adorf, cinematographer Gerry Fisher, production supervisor Harold Nebenzal, and Paul Diamond, son of scriptwriter I.A.L. Diamond. Rare on-set footage allows an insider’s glimpse of Billy Wilder at work. Click on the video below for the first four minutes of SWAN SONG, which has already been licensed to Carlotta Films, Paris, for their DVD and blu-ray release of the restored FEDORA, announced for February 2014.

SWAN SONG was produced in association with Bavaria Media and Global Screen and runs 87 minutes. It covers every aspect of the filming of Billy Wilder’s acclaimed drama FEDORA (1978) and is divided into ten chapters: 1) A Change in Hollywood, 2) Adapting “Fedora”, 3) Money from Munich, 4) Finding Fedora, 5) Shooting in Greece, 6) Shooting in Munich, 7) Shooting in France, 8 ) The Fate of FEDORA, 9) After FEDORA, 10) FEDORA Reborn.