A posthumous 1992 reconstruction of Orson Welles’s long-unfinished Don Quixote project, edited by Jesús Franco from footage shot between 1957 and 1972, following Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as they wander modern Spain in pursuit of chivalric ideals. (Note: This version represents a later editorial assembly, not a film completed by Welles.)
Direction
Welles's handheld camera work feels shockingly contemporary.
Production
Shot across 15 years with actors literally aging on screen.
Director
Orson Welles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Welles personally financed shoots by acting in commercials and voicing cartoons; there's footage of him reading Don Quixote on set between takes of Transformers commercials.
This ghost-edit spawned at least three competing 'definitive' versions, making it perhaps the only film where the behind-the-scenes drama IS the art.
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