• 1955
  • 26m
Around the World with Orson Welles

Summary In 1955, Orson Welles directed and hosted a mini series for British television. He leads us through a few famous places of Europe with his inimitable touch. In Paris he introduces us to famous artists such as Juliette Gréco or Jean Cocteau who lived in the Saint Germain Des Pres quarter. In London we meet the Chelsea Pensioners, in Spain we attend a Madrid Bullfight and visit the Basque country (Basque Country 1&2). Somewhere between a home movie and a cinematic essay, these short films have been described by French critics as the missing link in Welles' work. View more details

  • 1955
  • 26m

Around the World with Orson Welles

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Orson Welles Art Buchwald Kenneth Tynan Chris Wertenbaker

All cast & crew

7.2

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 22, 1955

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Associated Rédiffusion ITA-TV

Summary In 1955, Orson Welles directed and hosted a mini series for British television. He leads us through a few famous places of Europe with his inimitable touch. In Paris he introduces us to famous artists such as Juliette Gréco or Jean Cocteau who lived in the Saint Germain Des Pres quarter. In London we meet the Chelsea Pensioners, in Spain we attend a Madrid Bullfight and visit the Basque country (Basque Country 1&2). Somewhere between a home movie and a cinematic essay, these short films have been described by French critics as the missing link in Welles' work. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 22, 1955

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Associated Rédiffusion ITA-TV

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 06, 1955
The Basque Countries
Orson Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after spending 23 years in Colorado.
Episode 2 • Oct 20, 1955
La Pelote Basque
Orson Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants - jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.
Episode 3 • Nov 03, 1955
The Third Man in Vienna
Orson Welles re-visits the city of Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.
Episode 4 • Nov 17, 1955
St. Germain des Prés
Orson Welles travels to Paris, France, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing new letters to describe sounds and night clubs featuring musicians playing hot jazz.
Episode 5 • Dec 01, 1955
The Queen's Pensioners
Orson Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows that was created in the 1600s and an old soldiers home in Chelsea.
Episode 6 • Dec 15, 1955
Madrid Bullfight
Orson Welles and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
The Dominici Affair
The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign.
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