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We were worried for a minute there. The monumentally troubled, decades-spanning production of director Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has become the stuff of legend – not to mention the subject of the acclaimed 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha.” But after soldiering through enough setbacks this decade to fill a whole second documentary, the completed picture’s triumphant Cannes Film Festival premiere was at risk of being thwarted by a legal battle with the film’s ex-producer Paul Branco.

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Reports of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote‘s death were greatly exaggerated. Although a French court ruled in former producer Paul Branco‘s favor over the long and drawn-out legal battle between him and director Terry Gilliam, apparently reports that Gilliam had lost the rights to his film were not true. Gilliam retains The Man Who Killed Don Quixote […]

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Jonathan Pryce as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s much troubled saga Photo: UniFrance

The heated saga over the inclusion of Terry Giliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as the closing film in this year’s Cannes Film Festival rumbles on.

After criticisms by the Cannes Film Festival organisers of producer Paul Branco’s stance and his company Alfama Films Production, who go to court on Monday (7 May) to try to have the film pulled from the Festival and its subsequent release in France, the producers and the French distributors Océan have entered the fray saying that Branco “is not, has never been and will never be the producer of Don Quixote.”

They explain that Branco had been given an option to buy the rights through the English company Rpc, but he never acquired the rights because he was unable to pay the 250,000 euro price tag. It is...