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The Saragossa Manuscript is a polonais film of genre Drama directed by Wojciech Has released in USA on 6 april 1972 with Iga Cembrzyńska

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie

The Saragossa Manuscript
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Released in USA 6 april 1972
Length 3h2
Directed by
OriginPologne
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Fantastic,    Comedy,    Fantasy,    Historical
Rating77% 3.8982253.8982253.8982253.8982253.898225

The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. In a deserted house during the Napoleonic Wars, two officers from opposing sides find a manuscript, which tells the tale of the Spanish officer's grandfather, Alphonso van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). Van Worden travelled in the region many years before, being plagued by evil spirits, and meeting such figures as a Qabalist, a sultan and a gypsy, who tell him further stories, many of which intertwine and interrelate with one another.

The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of communist eastern Europe upon its release. It later also achieved a level of critical success in the United States, when filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rediscovered it and encouraged its propagation.

Synopsis

During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.

Actors

Iga Cembrzyńska

(Emina, księżniczka mauretańska)
Kazimierz Opaliński

(Hermit / Sheik)
Elżbieta Czyżewska

(Donna Frasquetta Salero)
Jan Machulski

(Count Pena Flor)
Beata Tyszkiewicz

(Donna Rebecca Uzeda)
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