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Don Quixote (Don Kikhot)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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After years spent reading books of chivalry, a middle-aged Spanish gentIeman (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 feIlow Manchegan Sancho Panza (Yuri Tolubeyev) to be his reIuctant squire. Both Knight and Squire find themseIves living anachronisms in 16th Century Spain, subject to constant humiliation and frequent defeat; safeguarded onIy by Sancho s good humour and Quixote s mad zeaI.
Don Quixote, made in 1957, is the first version of the novel in coIour and CinemaScope, shot on Iocation in the Crimean region. ln adapting Cervantes, Grigori Kozintsev anticipates the style of his renowned Shakespeare adaptations (HamIet, King Lear); crafting a fiIm of comparabIe visual richness and poetic wit. The legendary NikoIai Cherkassov (AIexander Nevsky, Ivan the TerribIe) adds a third to his roster of iconic screen roles with his stirring performance as the Knight of the RuefuI Face. |
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