Don Quichotte

Don Quichotte (2000)

Don Quixote

Spanien, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts: Alonso Quixadas Traumwelt ist bevölkert von heldenhaften Rittern, die für stolze Ideale kämpfen. Inspiriert von all den wunderbaren Geschichten, beschließt der phantasievolle 50-Jährige eines Tages, selbst das Abenteuer zu suchen.

Erscheinungsdatum
2000-04-09
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (41)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 56 Min.
Genres
Abenteuer, Komödie, TV-Film
Regie
Peter Yates

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Don Quijote

Don Quixote is a 2000 television film produced by Hallmark Entertainment and aired on TNT on April 9, 2000. It was directed by Peter Yates, and the teleplay, by John Mortimer, was adapted from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. The film was shown in three parts in Europe but in one installment in the U.S.

Production

Yates had not worked in television since the 1960s but was persuaded to try by his friend John Frankenheimer. "He said I should do some TV, that it could be fun as long as you take the same care as you do with feature films--get good actors, do something that's going to be special. It was good advice."

He discovered a friend of his, John Mortimer, had just written a script of Don Quixote and offered it to Yates to read. "I did, and I really liked it," said Yates. "When my agent established no director was attached, I went to see [producer] Robert Halmi and said I'd like to make 'Quixote'." By coincidence, Yates had been attached in the 1970s to direct a film version of Don Quixote, based on a screenplay by Waldo Salt, which would have starred R…

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