{"id":2016604,"date":"2026-06-29T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2016604"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:00:49","slug":"spanish-film-archive-sets-out-to-reconstruct-orson-welless-lifelong-quixote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2016604","title":{"rendered":"Spanish film archive sets out to reconstruct Orson Welles&#8217;s lifelong &#8216;Quixote&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/80\/85\/46\/1200x675_cmsv2_fd2db287-2aaf-5a15-823b-0809ca20118d-9808546.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2905271-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2905271\" data-cid=\"9815466\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2905271-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" 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Series<\/p>\n<p>                          Cinema<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Spanish film archive sets out to reconstruct Orson Welles&#8217;s lifelong &#8216;Quixote&#8217;<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/80\/85\/46\/1536x864_cmsv2_fd2db287-2aaf-5a15-823b-0809ca20118d-9808546.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"This 22 February 1982 file photo shows film actor and director Orson Welles during a press conference in Paris.\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              This file photo dated 22 February 1982 shows film actor and director Orson Welles during a press conference in Paris.<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">Jacques Langevin \/ AP<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Jacques Langevin \/ AP\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspJavier Iniguez De Onzono\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1782705649\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-06-29 06:00:49 +02:00\">29\/06\/2026 &#8211; 6:00 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment 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Spanish)<\/em>, months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that witnessed his exploits, which may explain why one of the most influential filmmakers in history felt compelled to <strong>adapt Cervantes\u2019 classic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearly 40 years later, a project <strong>led by the Spanish Film Archive<\/strong>, in collaboration with the <strong>Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise<\/strong>, Italy\u2019s <strong>Cineteca Nazionale<\/strong> and Munich\u2019s <strong>Filmmuseum<\/strong>, aims to gather the material scattered across these four countries in order to reconstruct the filmmaker\u2019s dream: a shoot that began in 1957 in Mexico and then stretched over the next three decades of his life, without a final version ever seeing the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not talking about a restoration,\u201d clarifies Esteve Riambau, a historian specialising in Welles and former director of the Catalan Film Archive. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about reconstructing a film whose ideas and materials kept changing, with things being added and discarded\u2026 It is still too early to know whether we have everything or what we are missing,\u201d he adds in a phone call from Bologna, the city where he has presented this project <strong>at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival<\/strong> together with the director of the Spanish Film Archive, Valeria Camporesi.<\/p>\n<p>Riambau\u2019s aim is to achieve a result as close as possible to the intentions of the American genius, born in 1915 and raised between Wisconsin and Illinois in a well-off Midwestern family. \u201cIt is not going to be a documentary. <strong>What is envisaged is a cultural presentation<\/strong>, not a commercial release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The specialist is very mindful of the attempt that <strong>Jes\u00fas Franco<\/strong>, a friend of Welles, made in 1992 with the material then available (around 40,000 metres of footage) for Seville\u2019s Universal Exposition, \u2018Don Quijote de Orson Welles\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7234299516908212\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/80\/85\/46\/808x586_cmsv2_9e634daf-8402-52bc-8845-d608d51189cf-9808546.jpg\" alt=\"Frames from scenes of \u2018Don Quixote\u2019 shot by Orson Welles\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Frames from scenes of \u2018Don Quixote\u2019 shot by Orson Welles<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Filmoteca Espa\u00f1ola<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very disappointing version because he mixed the material with a documentary by RAI [the Italian public broadcaster] and even smuggled in his own images as if they were original,\u201d Riambau explains. The Spanish dubbing of the film is also questionable: the actors recited passages from Cervantes\u2019 novel in sequences that did not correspond, ignoring lip-sync with the performers.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, this will be the second time the Spanish Film Archive has been involved in this cinematic feat: Franco\u2019s adaptation was at the time overseen by <strong>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Prado<\/strong>, the institution\u2019s longstanding head from 1989 to 2016, a former member of the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival selection committee and widower of actress Marisa Paredes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Desperately seeking viewers: What Spain must do to attract people into cinemas again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the remainder of 2026, the institutions involved will study and rework the original script, which runs to <strong>2,000 pages<\/strong>, and digitise the material available: <strong>some 70,000 metres of film<\/strong>. In 2027 they will carry out a comparative analysis of the sequences available, their later variations and the written material. Riambau, however, takes a firm stance on the possible use of artificial intelligence in the reconstruction: only human minds and hands will be involved in the process.<\/p>\n<h2>From Wisconsin to El Toboso: did Welles really want to finish his work?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The director of \u2018Citizen Kane\u2019<\/strong> (a classic dashed off by Herman Mankiewicz, an alcoholic left disabled by a car accident, which revolutionised film history through its non-linear structure and the moral journey of its protagonist) also reworked other classics of world literature over the course of his career, such as Kafka\u2019s \u2018The Trial\u2019 and no fewer than three Shakespeares.<\/p>\n<p>It was in 1957 that Welles set about bringing Don Quixote to the big screen. <strong>An undertaking apparently cursed for filmmakers<\/strong>, as shown by Terry Gilliam\u2019s recent adaptation \u2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\u2019, which took almost two decades to come together, with eight abortive production attempts and decidedly lukewarm reviews on its release in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n<div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n        \n      <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even so, Gilliam\u2019s ordeal pales in comparison with Welles\u2019s efforts. He stretched his vision of the contemporaneous adventures of the false hidalgo over three decades and <strong>never managed to finish shooting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The American director began his odyssey between Mexico and Italy and came up with a pretext \u2013 the shooting of a documentary series on Spain during the developmental years of Francoism \u2013 so that RAI would let him move there and secretly begin his project in the land where the novel was born. The cover documentary was titled <strong>\u2018Viaggio nel paese di Don Chisciotte\u2019, \u2018Journey through the Country of Don Quixote\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Welles, an ardent defender of the Republican cause during the Civil War years, it was not easy to get the regime to look kindly on his plans, and he repeatedly moved the shoot, both to keep it hidden from the authorities and from the producers of the other projects he was involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Not that these comings and goings bothered the filmmaker. Clearly fascinated by Castile, Welles shot in Santa Mar\u00eda de la Huerta and Calata\u00f1azor (Soria), Pedraza (Segovia), Brihuega (Guadalajara) and in the city of Valladolid. When asked in 1960 in which Spanish town he would like to live, the American did not hesitate. \u201c<strong>\u00c1vila<\/strong>. The climate is awful: very hot in summer; very cold in winter. It is a strange and tragic place. I don\u2019t know why I feel something so special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Esteve Riambau explains that the project is being revived partly because of the love Welles felt for Spain. Director <strong>Oja Kodar<\/strong>, his artistic partner in this later period of maturity from the 1960s onwards, contacted the historian when he was still heading the Catalan Film Archive for this reason. \u201cShe believes that the most logical place for [the footage] to end up is Madrid, given Welles\u2019s legacy in Spain,\u201d says the coordinator of this film initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, born in Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia, retrieved some 50,000 metres of negative in 2017, whose digitisation will be carried out by the <strong>Cineteca Nazionale<\/strong>. The rest of the material to be assembled is divided among the other archives, including around 80 minutes of 35 mm positives held by the <strong>Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que<\/strong> and various work prints, negatives, fragments, tapes, videos and documents kept by the <strong>Filmmuseum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>From 1966 \u2013 the year the main shoot ended \u2013 until his death, Welles changed his mind several times about his work, apparently disappointed with the result. \u201cIn my view, Orson did not want to finish \u2018Don Quixote\u2019,\u201d Jes\u00fas Franco once said. \u201cHe wanted to keep that project as something of his own, that would live with him; as an illusion, <strong>a dream that could never be completed<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A utopian pursuit, straddling reality and metafiction, more than fitting for an adaptation of the story \u2013 with apologies to Pedro Almod\u00f3var \u2013 of La Mancha\u2019s most universal figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div 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\">\n<p>    Vespa turns 80: a grand parade in Rome<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">\u201cFilm directors are a bunch of wretches who devote themselves to doing something that is, technologically, almost obsolete,\u201d Orson Welles declared in a 1985 interview, recorded by \u2018Arte TV\u2019 (source in Spanish), months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that witnessed his exploits, which may explain why one of the most influential filmmakers in history felt compelled to adapt Cervantes\u2019 classic.Nearly 40 years later, a project led by the Spanish Film Archive, in collaboration with the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise, Italy\u2019s Cineteca Nazionale and Munich\u2019s Filmmuseum, aims to gather the material scattered across these four countries in order to reconstruct the filmmaker\u2019s dream: a shoot that began in 1957 in Mexico and then stretched over the next three decades of his life, without a final version ever seeing the light of day.\u201cWe are not talking about a restoration,\u201d clarifies Esteve Riambau, a historian specialising in Welles and former director of the Catalan Film Archive. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about reconstructing a film whose ideas and materials kept changing, with things being added and discarded\u2026 It is still too early to know whether we have everything or what we are missing,\u201d he adds in a phone call from Bologna, the city where he has presented this project at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival together with the director of the Spanish Film Archive, Valeria Camporesi.Riambau\u2019s aim is to achieve a result as close as possible to the intentions of the American genius, born in 1915 and raised between Wisconsin and Illinois in a well-off Midwestern family. \u201cIt is not going to be a documentary. What is envisaged is a cultural presentation, not a commercial release.\u201dThe specialist is very mindful of the attempt that Jes\u00fas Franco, a friend of Welles, made in 1992 with the material then available (around 40,000 metres of footage) for Seville\u2019s Universal Exposition, \u2018Don Quijote de Orson Welles\u2019.\u201cIt was a very disappointing version because he mixed the material with a documentary by RAI [the Italian public broadcaster] and even smuggled in his own images as if they were original,\u201d Riambau explains. The Spanish dubbing of the film is also questionable: the actors recited passages from Cervantes\u2019 novel in sequences that did not correspond, ignoring lip-sync with the performers.Technically, this will be the second time the Spanish Film Archive has been involved in this cinematic feat: Franco\u2019s adaptation was at the time overseen by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Prado, the institution\u2019s longstanding head from 1989 to 2016, a former member of the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival selection committee and widower of actress Marisa Paredes.Over the remainder of 2026, the institutions involved will study and rework the original script, which runs to 2,000 pages, and digitise the material available: some 70,000 metres of film. In 2027 they will carry out a comparative analysis of the sequences available, their later variations and the written material. Riambau, however, takes a firm stance on the possible use of artificial intelligence in the reconstruction: only human minds and hands will be involved in the process.From Wisconsin to El Toboso: did Welles really want to finish his work?The director of \u2018Citizen Kane\u2019 (a classic dashed off by Herman Mankiewicz, an alcoholic left disabled by a car accident, which revolutionised film history through its non-linear structure and the moral journey of its protagonist) also reworked other classics of world literature over the course of his career, such as Kafka\u2019s \u2018The Trial\u2019 and no fewer than three Shakespeares.It was in 1957 that Welles set about bringing Don Quixote to the big screen. An undertaking apparently cursed for filmmakers, as shown by Terry Gilliam\u2019s recent adaptation \u2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\u2019, which took almost two decades to come together, with eight abortive production attempts and decidedly lukewarm reviews on its release in 2018.Even so, Gilliam\u2019s ordeal pales in comparison with Welles\u2019s efforts. He stretched his vision of the contemporaneous adventures of the false hidalgo over three decades and never managed to finish shooting.The American director began his odyssey between Mexico and Italy and came up with a pretext \u2013 the shooting of a documentary series on Spain during the developmental years of Francoism \u2013 so that RAI would let him move there and secretly begin his project in the land where the novel was born. The cover documentary was titled \u2018Viaggio nel paese di Don Chisciotte\u2019, \u2018Journey through the Country of Don Quixote\u2019.For Welles, an ardent defender of the Republican cause during the Civil War years, it was not easy to get the regime to look kindly on his plans, and he repeatedly moved the shoot, both to keep it hidden from the authorities and from the producers of the other projects he was involved in.Not that these comings and goings bothered the filmmaker. Clearly fascinated by Castile, Welles shot in Santa Mar\u00eda de la Huerta and Calata\u00f1azor (Soria), Pedraza (Segovia), Brihuega (Guadalajara) and in the city of Valladolid. When asked in 1960 in which Spanish town he would like to live, the American did not hesitate. \u201c\u00c1vila. The climate is awful: very hot in summer; very cold in winter. It is a strange and tragic place. I don\u2019t know why I feel something so special.\u201dEsteve Riambau explains that the project is being revived partly because of the love Welles felt for Spain. Director Oja Kodar, his artistic partner in this later period of maturity from the 1960s onwards, contacted the historian when he was still heading the Catalan Film Archive for this reason. \u201cShe believes that the most logical place for [the footage] to end up is Madrid, given Welles\u2019s legacy in Spain,\u201d says the coordinator of this film initiative.The artist, born in Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia, retrieved some 50,000 metres of negative in 2017, whose digitisation will be carried out by the Cineteca Nazionale. The rest of the material to be assembled is divided among the other archives, including around 80 minutes of 35 mm positives held by the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que and various work prints, negatives, fragments, tapes, videos and documents kept by the Filmmuseum.From 1966 \u2013 the year the main shoot ended \u2013 until his death, Welles changed his mind several times about his work, apparently disappointed with the result. \u201cIn my view, Orson did not want to finish \u2018Don Quixote\u2019,\u201d Jes\u00fas Franco once said. \u201cHe wanted to keep that project as something of his own, that would live with him; as an illusion, a dream that could never be completed.\u201dA utopian pursuit, straddling reality and metafiction, more than fitting for an adaptation of the story \u2013 with apologies to Pedro Almod\u00f3var \u2013 of La Mancha\u2019s most universal figure.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/06\/29\/spanish-film-archive-sets-out-to-reconstruct-orson-welless-lifelong-quixote&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/80\/85\/46\/1200x675_cmsv2_fd2db287-2aaf-5a15-823b-0809ca20118d-9808546.jpg&#8221;] Health news Ube, not matcha: trendy purple tuber in coffee, cakes and ice cream Afghanistan Pakistan&#8217;s airstrikes kill dozens in eastern Afghanistan World News Breaking news. 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