The Land of the Basques - Orson Welles Full documentary with Basque subs
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- čas přidán 17. 10. 2012
- Orson Welles zinemagile estatubatuarrak Euskal Herrian filmatutako dokumentala. 1955ean BBC kate britainiarrak Wellesi eskatu zion nolabaiteko bidai dokumental sorta bat egin zezan, Around the World with Orson Welles (Munduan zehar Orson Wellesekin) deiturikoa. Bideo sorta honen parte da Ziburun grabaturiko 44 minututako bideo hau.
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The man who Orson Welles is interviewing in this documentary, name is Jean Idiarte, who was my Grandfather, John (Jean) Batiste Allies, lead sheep-herder. My, Grandfather, John (Jean) Baptiste Allies owned a sheep operation in Montrose, Colorado of over 10,000 (ten thousand) head of sheep in Montrose, Colorado.
That's amazing.! 💪🏼🌹❤️👏🏼👏🏼🍃🙌🏼
@AMT Jean Idiarte was ,u Grandfathers lead sheep herder, my father Verdie Harvey Allies lived with Jean Idiarate in sheep camp in the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Utah from age 8 until age 16. Jean Idiarte then purchased his own sheep operation and then went back to the Basque lands and fell in love with a Basque girls and never returned to the Unites Stats of America and was interviewed by Orson Wells.
My family, Archuleta (Aretxuloeta), raised sheep, cattle in Northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado.
Incredible to hear him speaking proper american english at that time.
Agur 👋
Cool! Interesting guy.
Proud to be descended from a strong but fair-minded people who sought to "Neither a slave nor a tyrant be." Lovers of dance, family, great food, liberty, and the very land and seas they depended on. My father was born in Bizkaia as were my mother's parents. I love all my many Basque friends I have yet to meet and my beautiful family. It has been a blessing to have been raised by men and women from Euskal Herria and shown a way of life that is so alive and honest. Thank you for posting this! Eskerrik asko!
Steve Lachaga You have managed to move me...Thank you, Latxaga jauna :)
:)
Lovely comment
To sum it up, you are Spanish.
Bilbao, the port of Castille.
Cut the cackle!
what is to be proud of a monument made if you are no longer here to be proud..the simple fact these people have survived as the people on route from Mediterranean to the iberian coast ...that is a great feat.
I used to travel for work and spent a few days near San Sebastian. It was my absolute favorite country and the people were wonderful. They love Irish folks there, and I was treated to a pint of beer in an Irish pub there. At night people go out in the streets and walk - plenty of pedestrian areas with no autos. I think the Basque really know how to live a great life. I'm in the US now, and people live to work here, instead of working to live. I doubt I'll return to the Basque land again, but if I had the opportunity to visit again - I'd get right over there, and maybe never return.
Actually a resent investigation find out that basque and Irish share the same DNA they are related
Edgar Cayce wrote that Basques were one of the 3 survivors from the catastrophe of the Atlantida, the other are Mayas and Egyptians. The book's name is The Origin and Destiny of Men. cordially Marina
Oh I didn’t know that he wrote that but they are
Neat legend. Shame Atlantis wasn't real.
But it’s nonsense.
Orson Welles was ahead of his time by at least half a century.
I loved this old film. Some of the things he says here, in between the tongue in cheek stuff is truer today than ever. I didn't know Orson Welles did documentaries like this. Now I have something else to look into. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Everything Orson did had a magic touch to it. he was pre-eminently a maverick artist and a sardonic rebel.
I now think that Orson Welles was "best" at documentary and the nuances of moving between fact and fiction; he also should have run for political office, being from Kenosha, Wisconsin he almost ran against McCarthy. What a different, more humane world, that would have been...
He actually did a series of travelogue documentaries in the late-1950s/early-1960s. All in the same general style as this. I think they might be available on CZcams if'n you go check...I know that they were, once upon a time.
Orson Welles, sagacity and certitude, a true diplomat and artist of the image. Milesker for this.
1st generation American. My father came to USA as a sheepherder. His first night was spent at the Noriega's. All of our huge family is still there and we are extremely close. I'm proud of my heritage!!!
Noriegas?
I know this documentary was about the Basque, which I greatly appreciated, the information about these obscure people. But, the more I learn about Orson Welles the more I like him.
Blessings Chris... where ever you are today.
Chris is a doctor in NYC now for 50 years
How do you know?
Orson's words were very prescient. He spoke VOLUMES about our human condition. Thank You for uploading this!
A very nice documentary by Orson Wells!!!
I’m a proud ARCHULETA!!! Colorado and New Mexico is filled with Basque people’s n descendents.
Proud Arego here 😉❤
@@tuesdayafternoon13 hi 🌹
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@@charleyarchuleta4932 Hello! I love to alert my cousins in Mexico 🇲🇽 of their great Basque origins...I love sharing that a great deal so they'll learn how special they are unlike many Americans who sadly deem too many in beautiful Mexico as... less than... shame on them. Ignorance is hard to repair 😆 🤣 😂 good to meet you here Archuleta- but just descendants at all but plenty of half bloods and more... my studies have been life-long and I enjoy our shared roots.
My family is from Elantxobe on the Spain side
My parents are from South America but, my family’s ancestors are from the Basque Country. My last name is Velastegui (Stegui) means basques.
It means "place of the raven" (from "Belas" --> Raven and "-Tegi" --> Location, house). Others give it the meaning of "place under the flow of water."
The Basques are a large part of my ancestry, I enjoyed this documentary.
I don't think there is anyone who likes to talk more (and have more of a right to) than Orson Welles
PERFECT.
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Maravilloso ver a Orson Wells y sus invitados hablar así de nuestra tierra. Es increíble que los comentarios sobre el modo de vida y diferentes costumbres entre lo moderno y lo tradicional siguen vigentes hoy en día. Eskerrik asko!
Now I know why I loved playing handball in high school and racquetball in college and beyond. Zabala family.
I love the Basques and I love Orson Welles. I did not know they knew each other.
Indeed ! Orson Wells was fascinated about Spain.
@@anselmo4952 I can't blame him.
I am moved and nostalgic, I dont know why. I ve never been to Basque country in my life. I wish I have. It looks like Greek villages but in the same time, so totally different. Thank you Orson for the place and time travel.
+ilargitxo2 Perhaps you are right,. But please don't forget that it's natural for two mediterranean places to have a lot in common especially in regards to the landscape.
+ilargitxo2 I am afraid that you can't see the forest from the trees. The whole point of my comment is a personal feeling when watching the film of Orson Welles.Yes, I found it similar to greek villages and I still do but this isn't the point. The point is the way he approached the people and the country and this has actually moved me. With wonder and love. You seem offended somehow. But this isn't my problem.
@@eviiliadou1753 Some areas in Spain and France are indeed Mediterranean, but the Basque Country isn't.
im fortunate enough to know some basque people, they are the kindest people in the world. i have learnt a lot from these people, humility perhaps the greatest, this is a very good documentary and i wish that orson was alive today to see how the country has developed since franco's death. i will go back to visit many more times , i will live well and therefore die well.
I think he would probably be disappointed; unless I'm wrong they probably have technology up to the teeth like everywhere else. The kids probably have cell phones, they probably aren't running, and playing in the streets anymore due to traffic, and video games, and they're probably wearing jeans and tshirts.
@@proverbs31woman14 /facedesk
Curiously Basque people were ranked among the least friendly people from Spain. They don't rank as low as Catalonians though.
People from Andalusia, Asturias and Galicia were ranked the highest on that survey.
@@cristianp.9469- Who was surveyed?
I really enjoyed watching this video. My father in law was from the basque area and he spoke of the hand ball game they played. And he wore a beret. I felt connected o these people. I do have Spanish in my own bloodline.
Great Documentary , proud to be a Basque around the world proud of my roots. The basque we are the oldest people in Europe our languages is very old and different that the rest languages , one of the few pre indo european languages that still surviving . This our best heritage for the rest of the world.
Freedom for the Basque Country!!!
It still was a post-WW & post-Civil War time, in a small basque village. Can´t agree they look poor (and even less) "uneducated". Mostly the last...at all.
You are not the oldest people in Europe. The Slavic people are the original Europeans...you guys came from Africa .
They were the first non-goules. The Slavs became friends with them. Stop arguing. You have more in common than not.
@@mareklakomski2256 Slavics? But you are a sub race. You dont exist as a European people. Got it?
@@mareklakomski2256 We all come from Africa, idiot.
One my many favorite documentaries!
One thing about the Basque, you're not going to outwork one. They'll put in 14 hours without even thinking about it doing the hardest work you've seen.
It is in my genes without even knowing before. I worked to break my spirit.
Just learned through ancestry that I have basque , Spain, Portugal, Ireland blood. And I'm an American of Mexican (Jalisco]) decent.
"And if they lived well they died well too"
As a basque myself, i feel proud of my land and glad to have found this little cute documentary. Mr. Welles was really a curious gentleman. However i must say i find him too rigorous when he states that "basques are not civilized in the pure sense of the word because civilization implies a developed city life", i guess from the latin word "civitas" which means city but damn, so picky haha
I thought his comment regarding Basque not being "civilized" was one of admiration. Meaning that they are a thriving society that didn't want or need the technical advancements to assure survival.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to learning more about the Basque culture.
TGM_OST are you Blood type A neg?
I am Rh- bloodline and I found this documentary. This is cool.
@@robertamurphy1124 I'm A-
Random question, were the basques persecuted during the 50s
Iruñean jaio naiz, baina aspaldiko Caracasen bizitzen; hau pozik nago hau aurkitzeko !!! Zorionak, Wells jauna eta eskerrikasko.
My father's family is of basque origin, some of these men and even children look so much like him, my uncle and my grandpa.
edit: just finished it, this was wonderful, and surprisingly personal for Welles. Lovely.
Wonderful documentary ... Thanks To Mr. Orson Wells... He could capture the essence of being basque and living basque culture ... Simply amazing legacy ... Thank you forever
I wonder if chris is still alive. I hope he does. Here he seems like a nice kid. Hope him the best. By the way, this documentary was nuts. It was really well shooted and narrated
He is probably still alive, since this was in the fifties and he was only a boy less than ten.
32:40 is my grandma!!! :)
This is the area where my family comes from, it’s possible we’re distantly related. Know any Sansinenas, Laxagues or Ardans?
Gora Euskadi! My grandparents were orphaned and left during the war. They both eventualy made their way to Australia in the 50s. My father married an Australian and i am very proud of my ancestory. I hope your family is well and still proud. Gora.
月明かり🌑
I think I got here by the guy at 4:17 I'm from Colorado...
I am proud of my blood. Thank you for sharing
Lael Tucker was war correspondent for Time and her husband died by euthenasia with her assistance as he had terminal cancer, she wrote a book about it. Maybe this very sad loss of his father so young inspired Chris to become a doctor. The Americans had a university in Biarritz after the war for troops as they awaited their journey home. Maybe many Americans became curious about Basque culture and vice versa. It's a fascinating program, very different from formulaic TV of today and with Welles smoking a cigar next to a child! His observations about childhood "noone should be hustled through their lives" could be revisited usefully nowadays I think.
Wow, Mr. Welles was quite handsome in his day.. #crush
This is amazing !!! especially the part between 11:00 and 19:00 minute, it was as if 2 philosophers are talking about life and living, philosophers without names, only ideas.
BELLISSIMO... L'HO CAPITO TUTTO DALL'INIZIO ALLA FINE... SIMPLY WONDERFUL!
My Basque family settled Boise Idaho the Basque Epicenter in The United States (Arego) from Elantxobe and my cousin alongside our family is a scholar who has done so much for The Basque Museum and the Basque 2.0 Project
Our two families imported most every Basque rather the great majority of other Basques to the US
11:40 "Here, children are living entirely without mechanical aides of amusement". They are talking about the "machine age", he says, and how " kids today" are spoiled in America, and the benefits of kids being free all day to run about as they want, without any technology. "We are in trouble when we turn a button and someone does something for us on a screen", he says. This was 70 years ago and we say the same thing now!
Every old man in a beret is my grandpa and great-grandpa!!
wow. it's almost prophetic !!!
How?
Amazing!
One of the best and most unexpected documentaries I've ever seen. Thank you. Eskerrik asko.
Very interesting and i adore Orson Welles!! ❤️
11:40 - 12:11 Welles was 100% correct over 60 years ago.
gr8 doc.'thanx!way ahead of his time and have never herd enuf about'the basques'
Thank God Hollywood shut Mr Welles out. Otherwise we would not have these nice cultural documentaries to enjoy.
Welles would not play the "Hollywood" game. Therefore, he was outcast by them.
He clearly is not a joo.
Hollywood was communist in that day, and is fascist today
He went up against corporate media.... And history is to repeat
@@peterkelnerxd7009 I know little about movies compared to many but I’m certain that as a nipper in the 1980s , uk tv late were featuring Sylvester Stallone films ( due to his superstar Rambo was the toast of the day ) and an early b & w film had him as a factory worker with his fellow “ noo yoikers “ being oppressed by a boss enough to form a Union - against all the rules of the 1930s perhaps when it was set. At the time this movie ( screened late at night ) was very ironic ! I think their Union was “ F.I.S.T. “ and could’ve been it’s title although being in my early 20s was probably pissed at the time.🙄👍
11:36 If he only knew what was going on today, he saw it so long ago.
magnifique et si proche de la réalité et toujours d'actualité.
Mwaaaaaah the Basques!
Every person on the planet have rights. Those rights should never be impeded unless they impead anothers rights. Then and only then should they be confronted about their behaviour. Freedom. ✌🏽 ☘️
Very nice,Orson,and Chris did a fine job.
*Kiitos hyvä dokumentti. Bangkok -Jomppa suoraan Thaimaasta*
Splendide !Merci pour le partage
I love the first interview with the couple, the chicken going fucking nuts in the background adds a certain something.
Hortzdun, hortzak dituena da.
Txapeldun, txapela duena edo irabazi duena da.
Haurdun, tripan haurra duena da.
Euskaldun, euskara duena da.
Euskal Herrian bizi dena baina euskalduna ez dena Euskal Herritarra da.
speaking on screen time distractions. i enjoyed this.
My Great Grandmother was Basque. A large percentage of Basque people have a Negative Blood identifier too.
if she were in your maternal line you're in luck
beautiful doc/movie/whatever/heelergmooi!
Increíble.
I have just had my DNA done and have so much Basque showing in my DNA. I would love some more information on my roots :)
start by having a DNA test from say ftDNA, which matches you to others if you wish, I do ... to find my maternal line up to a place to identify Basque.. and do your maternal line tree on ancestry or other. as important
i think your name means ''the best at knocking down trees with her head whilst towing a a hayrick with her neck'' ---- just another Basque sport
There is not genetical difference between the Basques and the rest of the peoples of Cantabric Coast. And they have strong similarities with Ireland and Welsh peoples.
2nd generation Basque/American. My grandpa and his family came through Ellis Island.
I’m second generation basque/ Cuban and I’m so proud of my roots
Gora Euskadi!
I am captivated and have had so many surprises when it comes to this. I am Moroccan and Azorean and Po 38:16 rtuguese and I found out that two of my names are Bascque.
One is Tavares and the other is Albiza. I was told that by a gentleman who comes from Basque and there are a lot of Basque people in Florida.
And a lot of them play Jai Alai. And they are good at it.
One of the high points here is the rooster that's in the background crowing up a storm but it is in competition with the astonishing scorekeeper and his amazing voice.
These lovely people reminded me of my uncles and dada who were very like them.
Tavarez is from the place called Tavara. It is a habitational name and it is not from the Basque. It is outside the Basque, rather located in Castille-Leon.
Only Mr Welles could have achieved this piece...and survived...his Voice helps to make it a gem of film-making...he should have done a similar piece on Scotland (!)...dgp
This is where my DNA comes from how did I get here? I would love to see this country I bet I have relatives there. And this is where the Alpha antinin 3 protein super Gene originated from.
I live in Tennessee and my DNA said I am 1% Basque. That's so cool!
What a documentary!
Awesome documentary. My last name is Lizarraga which originates here.
I love what he says about progress and civilization. look how much progress we have made. Almost every child in the U.S. has a cell phone, and yet we have to try 12 year olds as adults because they are murdering each other for fun, or to impress Slenderman. Due to the constant input of fantasy through technology, many children can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
That's a lot of alarmist sensationalism.
I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I have at least 2% basque in my genetics! Cool!
Trying to identify the song that starts playing around 32:15 in. My grandmother is an american basque and while she doesn't speak Euskara, she tried to teach my brother and I whatever she could about basque culture. she taught us a song with this melody when we are young, I can barely remember the tune and certainly not the words, but i've been trying to find it ever since. If any of you are basques and recognize this song it would mean the world to me.
Argh! Banging my head against the wall, as I am not able to remember the title of the tune right now!
Do not worry, it is a very known music always played at the "jaiak" (fiestas), popular events & celebrations. I´ll be back to you as soon as my scattered mind decide to work properly!
Kind regards.
What tune is it?
Euskera is a dificult languaje because is was made for neolitic societies. The actual euskera is very artificial; Is not the lenguaje of ancient Basques.
@@Salomious
Aurrescu can be ?
@@anselmo4952 Try not to ashame yourself:
-it's LANGUAGE, not LANGUAJE,
-DIFFICULT, not DIFICULT,
-NEOLITHIC, not "neolitic",
-IT IS NOT (or ITS' NOT / IT ISN'T), not IS NOT,
-in English, ACTUAL means REAL (as a Spaniard, your ACTUAL [= CONTEMPORÁNEO] is misleading you, which is really easy to understand)
-your Spanish is as artificial as Basque (words like POSVERDAD, REINICIALIZAR, PREVENTA... are artificial af), and your language (with G, wink, wink) is full or complications, like many irregular verbs, arbitary genders...
Try to learn some courtesy, some basic Linguistics (your theory of Basque neing for Neolithic societies is just pathetic), some respect for yourself, some respect for us Basques and CZcamsrs, and some English too.
Eskerrik asko.
Thank you, mister Orson Welles. I have most of my blood of basque origin ( abinzano, mina, algañaraz, azconabieta, larreguy, faoaga, etchepareborda ...)
Orson Welles: "What do you write?"
Robert: *"F"*
Epic
Je suis basque et fier
France and Spain states have tried to elimininate Basque culture, and above all the lenguage, thanks God without success. God bless Euskalherria.
I enjoyed visiting the Basque country, once I stayed in a lovely farm house in Urduliz Bizkaia, Jon the farm house owner has been in the house all his life, like his dad, grandfather, and great grandfather, he told me Franco soldiers slept in his house during the civil war, uninvited of course, the place is so friendly, and the surfing was not to bad, the people very friendly and a lot of them had fairish hair, and not to unlike us Irish, I hope Togo back in 2019, Long live Euskal Herria, slainte agus NA Eskada Go D`eo.
Don't say stupid things, basque culture is spanish culture, basques used to call themselves old castilians (viejos castellanos), or the first spanish, in Spain "basque culture" has been always protected because is part of ourselselves, our own innerself, so inform yourself better or don't try to deceive anyone.
@@enriquepascual8767 durante un tiempo se intentaron eliminar todas ñas lenguas que no fueran el castellano
@@ashenone3050 , ¿WHEN???????????????????.
@@enriquepascual8767 durante la dictadura franquista
Amazing film. Was there many times in the 80s. The pigeon catching in big nets is a superb revelation. Had many a pigeon lunch in San Sebastian. On the origin of species my theory was that the belligerent and proud Basque people were one of the lost tribes of Israel.
Im half basque half Mexican and also have my barrette i have the best of 2worlds!
Pues compañero, tu apellido es de origen gallego o bien extremeño-portugués, llegó a América de mano de caballeros conquistadores durante la conquista de Nueva España (México).
I hope you get to visit the Basque Country - it'll be something you'll never want to forget!
I noticed the word kontrabanda in the subtitles, which the basque borrowed from french. Understandably, as they never considered the transport of goods across a national frontier which is not theirs as anything but just that : simply normal transport of goods. During WWII, many people benefited from the basque knowhow to escape into Spain, amongst them allied airmen whom my grandfather and his friends picked up in the then-new polders in The Netherlands befor the germans could get to their crashed plains and were then smuggled all the way south by the resistance networks.
We return.
Such a beautiful place. I so enjoyed this video. I am Portuguese and Colombian and my soul is redolent with being barefoot in my garden, baking bread and making love to you for the rest of our lives.
Orsons argument that a race can not have pride in their past unless they have something to show for it other than existing is an interesting point. However I feel the Basque lived in a harsh enviroment and did what was necessary to survive that was the goal. There was little time else other than tend sheep, sing songs and for sport lift heavy stones. Gora Euskadi.
...And catch the worlds largest marine mammal, supported the first oil market via that whale of a tale trade, and traveled to the new worlds at a very early time in current history, possibly even before Columbus. They were cartographers, coopers, blacksmiths, oil makers and fisherman as well as the high political positions held through all of history. Some of the first civilized people to be a part of a human exchange program on the northern trade roots. They are responsible for many pidgins that are still spoken today, language is more than "their thing"....As well as master linguists, they are master boat and ship builders. I once saw another Basque catch a fish with nothing but a shoestring, no hook! Truly amazing people to be around, many of whom are trilingual. I think there's plenty of Basque history to be proud of. No other culture has as high a ratio of universal donor's either. Have anyone in need of blood- call a Basque! Oh, and don't forget how beautiful their women are...
In that case, the Basque have many to show because many of them were conquistadores in America , Filipinas, etc. And sailors and soldiers of the armies of Spain
@@jjinnc50 My father was pure Basque. I am half cast proud of my heritage. Gora Euskadi!
Mexican American but with the last name Uribe (Biscay) which stems from the beautiful country of basque
It's all about the pure game...
I think civilized should be based on the hunter gatherer split when agriculture was first developed. Without agriculture, you would not be able to feed a city. Cities would not exist without agriculture. "Civilized" draws it's distinction from agriculture. Just opinion.
It's nice to hear the kids (although they speak french, not basque), I am amazed to see how polite they are ...this has completely changed.
Ricola! and there all Rh-...
Se puede conseguir con subtítulos en castellano? Eskerrik asko
11:00 Looks like a nice place for a kid :)
Descubrí este documental a través de "la pelota vasca" y lo estoy buscando con subtitulos en castellano, dado que no hablo euskera. si alguien pudiese indicarme donde localizarlo estaré agradecido.
A great documentary showing how advanced, some small town people are way ahead in the education levels at schools than city metropolitan areas around the globe. But Orson Wells' voice is like a 100 frogs with frogs in their throats so I had to remove one ear bud to ease my vibrating brain lol
Found out I am 1% Basque from Ancestry DNA. Never knew anything about the Basque people or country.
My great grandmother, Rose Navarre, is/was from --- wait for it -- Navarre!
This school where he's interviewing this woman, is absolutely outstanding. The education that these kids were receiving was priceless. The same issues that she was concerned with and making a point on, happens to be the problems that I noticed with the American educational system, it's broken at all levels including colleges and universities.
How? Because she’s suggesting private education is the problem.
But please, list all these problems. Be concise. All these things you noticed. List them.
Euskal Herria
Wich means Basque People, not Basque Country.
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Orson: “I don’t think that progress and civilization go together” !!