"My name is Orson Welles"
(Welles Rarities, Program One)

Presented by Stefan Drössler
Directed by Orson Welles, et.al.
1955-73, digital video, color and b&w, 125 min.

Welles was fascinated by television and tried to become popular as a TV director and TV host. He shot several episodes for programs such as Around the World with Orson Welles, People and Places, In the Land of Don Quixote and Orson’s Bag in which he is seen as an indefatigable globetrotter visiting European capitals like Paris, London or Vienna, as well as the Spanish countryside. In Orson Welles’ London, Welles indulges himself by playing several parts: a musician, Winston Churchill, a policeman, a flower seller, a Chinese man, four clubmen, a castle owner and, of course, the host. “I am happily married to New York, I’m in love with Paris, but cannot resist London. I return to London again and again, as a man returns affectionately to a past mistress.” (Orson Welles) Finally, in Orson Welles’ Shylock, the Munich Film Museum has compiled different approaches by Welles to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

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