Don Quixote is a 1973 Australian ballet film directed by and starring Rudolf Nureyev and Robert Helpmann.
[3] The film is adapted from Marius Petipa's ballet of the same name, itself based on Miguel de Cervantes' novel El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha.
[4] Finance to film it was raised mostly in the US with most of the crew coming from Australia but a British cinematographer was used.
It was shot over four weeks starting 13 November 1972 in a converted airport hangar in Essendon near Melbourne.
They used a music soundtrack arranged and conducted by John Lanchbery, which had been pre-recorded by The Elizabethan Trust Melbourne Orchestra a month earlier at Armstrong Studios.