The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)

Wojciech Has

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.

DIRECTOR
Wojciech Has
YEAR
1964
COUNTRY
Poland
RUNTIME
183 minutes
LANGUAGE
Polish with English Subtitles

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.

The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)

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