Plot Summary

The Dreamers is an unfinished short film project directed by Orson Welles in 1982, conceived as an adaptation of two stories by Isak Dinesen (The Dreamers and Echoes). The project consists of fragmentary test footage and partial scenes shot with Oja Kodar, intended as the basis for a longer film that was never completed. Welles did not assemble, edit, or finalize the material during his lifetime, leaving the project in an unfinished state as raw production footage rather than a completed film. (Note: This entry represents the original unfinished Welles project. A separate posthumous edited version assembled in 1985 exists as a distinct derivative work.)