Don Quixote

Apr 20, 1992

1h 56m

★ 6.1

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Overview

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.)

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

El Silencio Producciones

Don Quixote Trailers

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Cast

Don Quijote

Francisco Reiguera

Sancho Panza

Akim Tamiroff

Self

Orson Welles

Don Quijote (voice)

Pepe Mediavilla

Sancho Panza (voice)

Juan Carlos Ordóñez

Narrator (voice)

Constantino Romero

Woman on Motorscooter (archive footage)

Paola Mori

(archive footage)

Juan Serrano

(archive footage)

Beatrice Welles

(archive footage)

Oja Kodar

Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fernando Rey

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5.7

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6.7

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4.7

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7.6

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8.4

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7.2

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7.1

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0.0

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7.2

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4.0

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No overview available.