Two million dollars to finish the last film of Orson Welles – Le Figaro

VIDEOS – Three US producers launch an Internet subscription to collect the necessary funds for the completion of The Other Side of the Wind , the last work of the director of Citizen Kane .

The project is ambitious. Filip Jan Rymsza Jens Koetner and Frank Marshall, three young American producers are desperate to finish in 2015, the centenary of the birth of Orson Welles, his last unfinished work, The Other Side of the Wind .

After a long legal battle to get the rights of the film, they decided to launch a subscription on the Internet via a dedicated website, Indiegogo.com to finance the work necessary for the final realization of the film.

The subscription campaign started today and will end on June 14 The producers hope to collect $ 2 million needed to finish the film. According to experts, it would surely about a quarter of an hour.

This unfinished film was made between 1970 and 1976. After the death in 1985 of Welles, Oja Kodar his heirs (his last girlfriend), his daughter Beatrice Welles and Franco-Iranian production company The Astrophore waged a bitter legal battle to recover the exclusive copyright.

This is Orson Welles , the book in interviews that the American critic Peter Bogdanovich published in 1992, the superstar talks about the importance for him The Other Side of the Wind “I do not sleep and suddenly I thought:” J ‘have a story about an old director, it’s been years that I’m working. I’m crazy not to turn immediately “”

Then Orson Welles outlines of his original idea. “My character, Jake Hannaford, is a macho, one of those men torso hairy. Many voices tell the story. We will hear recorded conversations as interviews. We will see different scenes happening simultaneously. There will be people who write a book about him, several books. Documentaries, photos, movies, soundtracks. A myriad testimonials … The film will be the assembly of all raw material “.

Peter Bogdanovich, the great friend of Welles worked for The Other Side of the Wind can finally be completed. It has started the assembly following the directions that the director himself had given to him before his death.

This call for donations appears to seduce lovers of the Orson Welles cinema. In just eight hours of subscription, 78 moviegoers have already given 16,116 dollars. They will have the great privilege of being the first to see the final cut.