Lost in La Mancha (2002) on Netflix
R20021h 29mDocumentary
Terry Gilliam moves his Don Quixote adaptation from a Hollywood studio to European financing and a smaller budget. In Spain, the shoot meets aircraft noise, hail and a flash flood.
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Plot summary
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the film Terry Gilliam wants to make, his own version of Cervantes rather than a direct adaptation. With his co-writer he invents a marketing executive from the present day who is thrown back in time and taken for Sancho Panza. Gilliam shifts the project from a Hollywood studio to European backers, and the budget drops from 40 million dollars to 32 million. His vision does not shrink with it, so his department heads must work wonders with what they have. Pre-production and the shoot bring trouble he did not plan for: contract questions, the health of his cast, and weather that will not cooperate. On location in Spain, a nearby NATO aircraft target practice area fills the takes with noise, and hail and a flash flood damage equipment.
Cast
- Andrea Calderwoodas Herself - Former Head of Production, Pathé
- Bernard Bouixas Himself - Executive Producer
- José Luis Escolaras Himself - Line Producer
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- Benjamín Fernándezas Himself - Production Designer (as Benjamin Fernandez)
- Bárbara Pérez-Soleroas Herself - Ass't. Set Decorator
- Carlo Poggiolias Himself - Co-Costume Designer
- Fred Millsteinas Himself - Completion Guarantor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lost in La Mancha (2002)
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- Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe shot the film in 2000 as an ordinary making-of documentary for Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. When Gilliam could not finish the picture, they renamed their footage Lost in La Mancha and released it on its own.
- French actor Jean Rochefort prepared for the role of Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam's film by spending seven months learning English.
- A herniated disc left Jean Rochefort unable to continue, which shut the production down and produced a record insurance claim of $15 million. The insurers held the rights to the screenplay for several years before returning them to Gilliam, who restarted the film in 2008.
