Don Quixote

Orson Welles
1992-04-20

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.
6.103
116 min

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.)

Cast

Name Character Team
Francisco Reiguera Don Quijote Unowned
Akim Tamiroff Sancho Panza Unowned
Orson Welles Self Unowned
Pepe Mediavilla Don Quijote (voice) Unowned
Juan Carlos Ordóñez Sancho Panza (voice) Unowned
Constantino Romero Narrator (voice) Unowned
Paola Mori Woman on Motorscooter (archive footage) Unowned
Juan Serrano (archive footage) Unowned
Beatrice Welles (archive footage) Unowned
Oja Kodar (archive footage) Unowned
Fernando Rey Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Unowned