Lost in La Mancha
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lost in La Mancha |
| Original title | Lost in La Mancha |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Keith Fulton Louis Pepe |
| occupation | |
Lost in La Mancha is a documentary from 2002 by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.
Originally intended to follow the creation process of the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote , it became a documentary about its failure. The film follows a dramaturgy that stylizes the director Terry Gilliam as a kind of modern Don Quixote .
Gilliam's vision of Don Quixote
The script is a mixture of Miguel de Cervantes ' The Ingenious Junker Don Quixote von La Mancha and Mark Twain's A Yankee at the court of King Arthur . So Sancho Panza was to appear only briefly at the beginning of the film and was replaced by Toby Grisoni, played by Johnny Depp , who had traveled back from the 21st century to Quixote's time , as Don Quixote confused him with Sancho Panza. Depp's partner Vanessa Paradis was slated for the role of Grisoni's girlfriend .
Ex-Monty-Python Terry Gilliam, who had already enjoyed great success as a director with films such as 12 Monkeys , King of the Fishermen , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Brazil , had worked on the preparations for the film for about ten years and was convinced to make his best film yet.
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Starting in September 2000, the entire shoot was held up again and again by problems. The technical capabilities of the Spanish production facilities turned out to be too limited and the filming locations in Bardenas Reales ( Navarra ) to be unsuitable, as aircraft from a nearby NATO base disrupted the filming (rumor has it that so many planes only got on because the soldiers had heard that Johnny Depp would make a film there). The main actor Jean Rochefort , who had learned the English language especially for the film in record time, was no longer able to ride a horse due to a severe herniated disc . However, since this was absolutely essential for the film and Rochefort portrayed the perfect Don Quixote for Gilliam, the shooting was finally stopped.
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In July 2006, Gilliam announced that the legal disputes were resolved and that he had the rights to the script back. In January 2014, he also announced the resumption of preproduction for the film, and filming began in 2017. On May 19, 2018, the film celebrated its world premiere as a graduation film at the 2018 Cannes International Film Festival .
Web links
- Lost in La Mancha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terry Gilliam : Dreams of Don Quixote have begun again. Facebook , January 12, 2014, accessed January 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Cannes Adds Lars von Trier's 'The House That Jack Built,' Sets Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' as Closer . In: Variety . April 19, 2018 ( variety.com [accessed September 19, 2018]).