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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project

A scene from Orson Welles’ Don Quixote
A scene from Orson Welles’ Don Quixote. Most of the footage is in black and white, although some scenes were shot in colour in Andalucía. Photograph: Handout

More than 70 years after he shot the first few frames, Orson Welles’s ambitious project to put Don Quixote on the big screen may finally be completed thanks to a consortium of European film archivists.

Oja Kodar, the American film-maker’s partner and collaborator, has given her blessing to the project led by archives in France, Spain and Italy, along with the Munich film museum, to produce a coherent film out of 30 hours of footage scattered among them.

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