Quijote Welles

A young journalist, Barbara Galway, sets out on an ambitious and perhaps impossible mission to write the biography in the form of interviews with one of the most famous directors and actors of the 20th century, Orson Welles, then a genius in low hours. Throughout his encounters he discovers in him an overflowing creativity, undermined by a self-destructive background. But, beyond the topics - chain smoker of cigars, fondness of false noses, good hotels, alcohol, sex or gastronomic binge-eating - Barbara is enchanted by two recurring issues that structure her conversations from the beginning: one always unfinished film about Don Quixote and love for Spain, where he competed with his compatriot Ernest Hemingway and filmed Mr. Arkadin and Chimes at midnight. On account of that tape in fragments - "il suo bambino", whose thousands of meters are scattered in cans, laboratories or furniture repository, and which Welles, "the man of the Great Shadow", carries in his suitcases during his travels, turned into Wandering filmmaker-, Barbara, who does not stop at anything, confirms that there is hardly a script for Don Quixote, that it has been improvised on the fly and that over the course of three decades the director has not managed to finish shooting and editing it. Now the last chance, with Steven Spielberg as producer, is in the air.