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Don Quijote de Orson Welles is a 1992 version of Welles's unfinished Don Quixote edited by director Jesús Franco. In 1990, Spanish producer Patxi Irigoyen and Franco acquired the rights to some of the extant footage of the Don Quixote project.
Nov 10, 2005 · Don Quixote: Directed by Orson Welles. With Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Pepe Mediavilla, Juan Carlos Ordóñez. The story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.
Don Quixote was initially conceived in 1955 as a 30-minute film for CBS entitled Don Quixote Passes By. Rather than offer a literal adaptation of the Miguel de Cervantes novel, Welles opted...
Apr 20, 1992 · Overview. Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea. Orson Welles. Director, Screenplay. Miguel de Cervantes. Novel.
Don Quixote is an unfinished film project written, co-produced and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography took place between 1957 and 1969. Test footage was filmed as early as 1955, second-unit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film intermittently until his death in 1985.
Based on years of researching the filmmaker's notes, and involving the restoration of all existing footage and material, this is a completed version of the film adaptation of Cervantes' epic, begun by Orson Welles in 1955 but left unfinished upon his death in 1985.
May 19, 1992 · CANNES–Orson Welles’ “Don Quixote” has been among the most eagerly anticipated of films among cinephiles for more than 30 years, but “Don Quixote of Orson Welles” is not what they...
