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3 unusual facts about The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh


The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

In 2000 the Munich Film Museum then released a digitally restored version of the complete 3 minutes of footage, which has subsequently been screened at numerous film festivals.

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

In it, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the aviator Charles Lindbergh.



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