Product Information
The story of the film project 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' that was forced to shut down just days after filming started, Features surviving footage and interviews with the cast and crew.Product Identifiers
ProducerLucy Darwin
EAN5060034570431
eBay Product ID (ePID)3964552
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleLost in La Mancha
ActorTerry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort
DirectorKeith Fulton, Louis Pepe
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2003
FeaturesInterviews With Terry Gilliam Johnny Depp Keith Fulton And Louis Pepe\Deleted Scenes\2 Alternate Openings\Video Portraits\Costume Design And Story Boards From The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
GenreDocumentaries, General, Documentaries & Biographies
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
FeaturedTerry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort
Additional InformationDirected by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an uncomfortably small European-funded budget. Then Gilliam must wait for the lead actors, Johnny Depp and French actor Jean Rochefort, to show up on location in Spain. When Depp and Rochefort finally arrive, shooting commences, but within the first few days a torrential rainstorm hits the set, washing away much of the equipment and significantly altering the dry desert landscape. And to make matters much worse, Rochefort, who plays the central role of Don Quixote, falls ill and returns to Paris for medical treatment. As the days of the Quixote-less production go by, tensions among the crew members increase and Gilliam faces the frustratingly real prospect of scrapping the film.<BR>LOST IN LA MANCHA provides a fascinating look into both the mind and the method of maverick director Terry Gilliam. No stranger to film production problems (most notably with BRAZIL and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN), Gilliam sets out to make DON QUIXOTE with imagination and determination that echoes the noble delusions of its title character. As in the story, however, fantasy finds a fierce opponent in the form of reality, and Gilliam and his crew must decide what to do with a production that seemed jinxed from the start. The fly-on-the-wall footage, candidly captured by Fulton and Pepe, makes for an intriguing film within a film that combines behind-the-scenes frustration and heartbreak with genuinely funny moments.
Movie/TV TitleLost In La Mancha
ComposerMiriam Cutler
AnimationStefan Avalos, Chaim Bianco
NarratorJeff Bridges