LOST IN LA MANCHA

BRITBOX DOCUMENTARY

In the 1990s, ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam attempted to make a film of Cervantes’ classic fantasy, Don Quixote, but instead faced disaster after disaster in a film-making folly of epic proportions. His leading man injured his back and disappeared, floods swept away all the equipment, and low-flying Nato jets ruined nearly every shot. The film was never finished. But luckily this documentary, telling the incredible bad-luck story, was.

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