Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)

Director:

Orson Welles

Writers:

Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (novel)
Jesus Franco (additional dialogue in new edition)
(more)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

After reading too many novels about knights and heroic stories, Don Quijote and his servant Sancho Panza...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Independent Film | Character Name In Title

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

Directed by
Orson Welles

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra		novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha"
Jesus Franco		additional dialogue in new edition
Javier Mina		dialogue adaptation in new edition
Orson Welles		writer

Produced by
Óscar Dancigers	....	producer
Patxi Irigoyen	....	producer: new version
Francisco Lara Polop	....	producer (as Francisco Lara)
Juan A. Pedrosa	....	associate producer
Alessandro Tasca	....	producer

Original Music by
Daniel White

Cinematography by
Juan Manuel de la Chica
Jack Draper
José García Galisteo
Manuel Mateos
Ricardo Navarrete
Edmond Richard
Giorgio Tonti

Film Editing by
Jesus Franco		(new version)
Maurizio Lucidi		(original version)
Renzo Lucidi		(original version)
Peter Parasheles		(original version)
Alberto Valenzuela		(original version)
Irah Wohl		(original version)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jesus Franco	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Ian Sasplugas	....	sound: new version
Ángel Serrano	....	sound: new version
Joan Vidal	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Geny Jack	....	special effects: new version
Dolores Olivé	....	special effects: new version

Other crew
Jesus Franco	....	supervising director
Oja Kodar	....	general supervisor: new version

Thanks
Juan Cobos	....	thanks

Production Companies

• El Silencio Producciones

Distributors

• Jacinto Santos Parrás
• Terminal Video (2006) (Italy) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Don Quixote (USA)

Runtime:

116 min | Spain:111 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | USA

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

El Silencio Producciones

Trivia:

Finished by Jesus Franco and Patxi Irigoyen in 1992. (Orson Welles died in 1985).

Movie Connections:

Featured in Brunnen (2005)

What could have been...

Both Welles and Terry Gilliam have this dream of bringing this film to the screen. Both have had tragic endings in their productions. But at least we have this footage to show what might have been. Unless Terry Gilliam gets another shot, I would recommend to any film maker who will pull it off to research this film as well as "Lost in La Mancha" to see what should be done visually.