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Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (novel)Jesus Franco (additional dialogue in new edition)
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After reading too many novels about knights and heroic stories, Don Quijote and his servant Sancho Panza... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Flawed and fascinating, and with a debt to Doré moreCast
(Credited cast) | Francisco Reiguera | ... | Don Quijote (archive footage) |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Sancho Panza |
 | Orson Welles | ... | Himself (in new version) (archive footage) |
| José Mediavilla | ... | Don Quixote (in new version) (voice) |
| Juan Carlos Ordóñez | ... | Sancho Panza's Voice (in new version) (voice) |
| Constantino Romero | ... | Narrator (in new version) (voice) |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Closing Scene Narrator (in new version) (voice) |
| Paola Mori | ||
| Beatrice Welles | ||
| Oja Kodar |
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Orson Welles legendary project is nigh on impossible to find here, but I did have the good fortune to attend a free screening. Including myself and my wife there must have been all of eight people in the theater.
Welles interpretation of Quixote is peculiarly reminiscent of some of the illustrations of Gustave Doré (and to a lesser extent Salvador Dali) of Cervantes' masterpiece. I thought this an attractive approach, as it indicated a degree of recognition for others who had explored this fascinating work.
Given the wild fluctuations in film stock and equipment, the film is at times somewhat difficult to watch: but these sudden transitions are only a little more extreme than in F for Fake. The travelogue like sequences toward the end of the film are also a little jarring, but do give some indication of Welles fascination with Spain.
As a student of film, or as a student of Welles you should try to see this flawed film. It's great moments far outshine the weaknesses. I am not an Orson Welles fan, but I certainly prefer this to The Lady from Shanghai. If you are not interested in Welles or film history you will probably be disappointed. As with F for Fake, there is little of the slickness we associate with Welles films.