Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Orson Welles

Escritores:

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

Género:

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

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A curiosity at best

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

Don Quixote (USA)
Don Quijote (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

116 min | Spain:111 min

País:

Spain | Italy | USA

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Sonido:

Mono

Compañía:

El Silencio Producciones

Trivialidades:

Orson Welles began filming this picture in 1955 and worked on it off and on over the years.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Brunnen (2005)

A curiosity at best

Only when one hear Welles narration on the soundtrack of this dog's dinner of a film, does one get a tiny glimpse of what Welles might have been able to achieve in bringing "Don Quixote" to the screen. From what I saw last night on DVD (purchased by a friend recently in Spain!), my guess is that "Don Quixote" is unfilmable, even by a genius like Welles. The 'director', Jess Franco', is no Welles, to be sure. Where and how Franco got his hands on this footage, is as mysterious as Welles himself. Apparently shot over a number of years, the assembled footage, is a mish mash of stills, unrelated footage, an out-of-sync sound track (scenes of Welles in a car shooting footage like an enthusiastic tourist), and ludicrously dubbed American voices, makes this just a slice of arcane interest. In summary, it was 'interesting' to see, but at the end of the day, it manages to tarnish Welle's reputation, rather than enhance it. Still, with 'Citizen Kane', the truncated "Magnificent Ambersons", & "Chimes At Midnight", to his credit, Welles really doesn't need this kind of 'tribute'.