Unreleased Don Quixote scenes on Italian TV

[dkovacev]

Are there any Italian Wellesnet members who have seen the "Fuori Orario" show on Rai Tre during this weekend? According to the tv guide on Rai Tre web site, eight minutes of unreleased Don Quixote scenes were shown on Saturday night. Has anybody seen or eventually recorded this?
The next day, they have also shown the first episode of "In the Land of Don Quixote" in the new restored version, as premiered in Locarno (without narration, only with music and sound effects). I managed to catch that, but sadly missed the unreleased Don Quixote stuff from Saturday.

[dkovacev]

I managed to see the unreleased Don Quixote stuff that was shown on Italian TV last September. Essentially, it is the extended movie theatre scene, without sound but completely edited (by Welles?) and finished, with exception of one insert shot missing. The total duration is six minutes. It's a great scene, with some wonderful comic acting by Akim Tamiroff. And it's better and more coherent than almost everything in Franco's Don Quixote. I'll post an more detailed description and screenshots in a day or two.

[Roger Ryan]

The cinema scene is fabulous, although I suspect Welles would have edited it down in length if he had completed the film. One of my favorite shots in the unreleased footage comes when Sancho Panza is searching for Don Quixote in modern Spain. He approaches Welles himself who is seated in the backseat of a car. The car pulls away and we see Akim Tamiroff (as Panza) from the perspective of the rear window looking at us mournfully as he grows smaller and smaller. It would have made a great ending shot to at least one version of the film.

[R Kadin]

Roger, that same shot and several others like it appear in the recent, Welles-centred Krisitan Petri film, Brunnen.