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62% Critic Match
Don Quixote
“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.”
6.2 / 10• 1992• 1h 56m•NR• English
AdventureDramaComedy
Storyline
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 & Crew
Francisco Reiguera
Don Quijote
Lead
Akim Tamiroff
Sancho Panza
Orson Welles
Self
Pepe Mediavilla
Don Quijote (voice)
JC
Juan Carlos Ordóñez
Sancho Panza (voice)
Constantino Romero
Narrator (voice)
Paola Mori
Woman on Motorscooter (archive footage)
JS
Juan Serrano
(archive footage)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Orson Welles's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Don Quixote is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
