In the Land of Don Quixote
Nella terra di Don Chisciotte Englishlanguage title In the Land of Don Quixote is an Italianlanguage documentary travelogue series about Spain, made by Orson Welles. It began filming in 1961, but did not air until 1964. The series follows Welles travels around Spain, and was narrated by Arnoldo Fo. The series was made for Radiotelevisione Italiana RAITV. Costarring with Welles were his Italian wife Paola Mori, and their young daughter Beatrice Welles.
Welles was responsible for the filming and editing of the series, but not for the Italianlanguage narration, which was done by the RAITV network after they took the project out of his hands. According to Jonathan Rosenbaum The programs are essentially blackandwhite home movies, shot with a cameraman from Spanish TV an Italianspeaking cameraman for the Prado and an Italian sound person...The version edited by Orson Welles contains no narration, but RAI adds a narration of its own, written by playwright and stage director Gian Paolo Callegari with the assistance of Antonio Navarro Linares and spoken by Arnoldo Fo.The series has been restored by the Munich Film Museum. Welles had no input into the commentary, so the restoration uses the original background music track which Welles selected, playing it louder, with the commentary removed entirely. ........
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