The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
The Long Strange Trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has
March 22 - 31, 2024
Based on one of the greatest works of world literature, Has’s most enduringly influential achievements centers on a mountain-crossing that turns into a sequence of supernatural and frightful events for a military officer wandering through Spain.
Introduction by Annette Insdorf on March 23
Based on one of the greatest works of world literature (Jan Potocki’s early-19th-century novel), The Saragossa Manuscript centers on a mountain-crossing that turns into a sequence of supernatural and frightful events for the skeptical Alphonse van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski), a military officer wandering through Spain. Among the most engrossing formal experiments of the 1960s, the film is a spellbinding adventure in cinematic meta-narrative and visual invention, an endlessly rich tapestry of stories within stories, and arguably Has’s greatest and most enduringly influential achievement.
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