SPAN 232: Cervantes and the Fake Quixote (HC) Fall 2018

Soviet-Russian version directed by Grigori Kozintsev

A version of Orson Welle's unfinished film edited by Jesus Franco.

First sound film version of Quijote.

Recent English-language version starring John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini

During the 16th-century, Don Quixote's sidekick, the faithful Sancho Panza, comes into the local tavern bearing a forlorn good-bye letter from Quixote to the love he never knew, Dulcinea. The barmaid Aldonza is so moved by the altruistic passion of the letter that she rushes to the bedside of the dying Don Quixote and swears to him that she is his Dulcinea. Inspired by his idealism, she dedicates herself to working for the disenfranchised and the sick until the Church accuses her of being a witch.

Based on the play of the same title by Gaston Baty which was inspired by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.