Around the World with Orson Welles(1955)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1955-10-07
Average Runtime: 26m
Rating: 7.1
Votes: 8
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.
Keywords
miniseriestravelogueeuropean toureuropean society
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Episodes: 7E01
Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries
Air Date: 1955-10-07
Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He in...
E02
Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque
Air Date: 1955-10-21
Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of it...
E03
Revisiting Vienna
Air Date: 1955-11-04
Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unfo...
E04
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Air Date: 1955-11-18
Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper column...
E05
London: The Queen's Pensioners
Air Date: 1955-12-02
Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldie...
E06
Spain: The Bullfight
Air Date: 1955-12-16
Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.
E07
France: The Tragedy of Lurs
Air Date: 2003-04-12
The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed c...
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