Rent Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)
3.8 of 5 from 50 ratings
2h 38min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- In 1955, the celebrated polymath Orson Welles was invited to write, direct and present his first television production - a series of travelogues exploring Europe. Part home-movie, part cinematic essay, each episode of Around the World with Orson Welles takes the viewer on a fascinating journey to meet famous people and explore the continent's most romantic cities. In Paris, we are introduced to artists and poets; in Madrid, we attend a bullfight; and in Vienna, in an episode which was long believed lost, we are taken to the locations of 'The Third Man'.
- Actors:
- Orson Welles, Elaine Dundy, Kenneth Tynan, Art Buchwald, Jean Cocteau, Eddie Constantine, Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Duncan, Juliette Gréco, Le père Ibarburu, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Spacagna, Beñat Toyos, Chris Wertenbaker, Lucien Besnard, Jacques Chapus, Charles Chenevrier, Claude Delorme
- Directors:
- Orson Welles
- Producers:
- Louis Dolivet, John Jones, Roland Gillett
- Writers:
- Orson Welles
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Documentaries
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/08/2015
- Run Time:
- 164 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Mixed
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles (Christophe Cognet, 2000, 52 mins): documentary, including a partial reconstruction, exploring the making of Welles' unfinished Around the World with Orson Welles episode The Tragedy of Lurs, about the controversial Dominici murder case in France
- The Levin Interview with Orson Welles (John Phillips, 1967, 27 mins): rare interview of Welles discussing his work and career with Bernard Levin
