Don Quixote

Overview

Orson Welles’s unfinished reimagining of Don Quixote, conceived in 1955 and filmed intermittently over more than a decade, portraying Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as anachronistic figures moving through the modern world. Conceived as an evolving independent project rather than a single fixed production, the film was never completed, released, or authorized in a final cut during Welles’s lifetime. (Note: This entry represents the original unfinished Welles project, distinct from the 1964 documentary In the Land of Don Quixote and the 1992 posthumous reconstruction Don Quijote de Orson Welles, which was assembled by Jesús Franco from surviving footage.)