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After years spent reading books of chivalry, a middle-aged Spanish gentleman (Nikolai Cherkassov) is convinced that he is the real-life knight-errant, Don Quixote de la Mancha. To this end, he commissions his battered horse Rocinante to be his steed and appoints fellow Manchegan Sancho Panza (Yuri Tolubeyev) to be his reluctant squire. Both Knight and Squire find themselves living anachronisms in 16th Century Spain, subject to constant humiliation and frequent defeat; safeguarded only by Sancho's good humour and Quixote's mad zeal. Don Quixote, made in 1957, is the... first version of the novel in colour and CinemaScope, shot on location in the Crimean region. In adapting Cervantes, Grigori Kozintsev anticipates the style of his renowned Shakespeare adaptations (Hamlet, King Lear); crafting a film of comparable visual richness and poetic wit. The legendary Nikolai Cherkassov (Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible) adds a third to his roster of iconic screen roles with his stirring performance as the 'Knight of the Rueful Face.' [show more]

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Released
24 September 2012
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Mr Bongo 
Classification
Runtime
101 minutes 
Features
PAL 
Barcode
0711969122138 
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Grigori Kozintsev directs this Soviet drama adapted from the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Following years of reading books about gallant heroes the middle-aged Alonso (Nikolai Cherkasov) believes himself to be a knight by the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Along with his horse and his friend, Sancho Panza (Yuri Tolubeyev), who becomes his squire, Quixote goes off on an adventure around 16th-century Spain attempting to perform good deeds but not always succeeding.

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