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    Saragossa Manuscript, The (1965)

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    Based on the 1813 novel by Jan Potocki, this is a complex and exhilarating film that ranks among the most remarkable achievements of 1960s European cinema.

    Beginning in the Peninsular War, the action shifts, via the pages of a gloriously illustrated tome, to a dazzling compendium of interweaving stories.

    Zbigniew Cybulski’s Walloon guardsman meets with two Muslim princesses, a hermit, a possessed lunatic, a cabalist, a rationalist philosopher, a gypsy and an Inquisitor.

    Played to the haunting strains of Krzysztof Penderecki’s score, this is a highly stylised, darkly surreal exploration of such themes as the capriciousness of nature, authority and, above all, love.

    Capt Alfons van Worden
    Zbigniew Cybulski
    Hermit
    Kazimierz Opalinski
    Princess Emina
    Iga Cembrzynska
    Princess Zibelda
    Joanna Jedryka
    van Worden’s father
    Slawomir Linder
    van Worden’s mother
    Miroslawa Lombardo
    Pascheco
    Franciszek Pieczka
    Spanish nobleman
    Aleksander Fogiel

    Director
    Wojciech Has

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