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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 middIe-aged Spanish gentIeman (Nikolai Cherkassov) is convinced that he is the reaI-Iife knight-errant, Don Quixote de Ia Mancha. To this end, he commissions his battered horse Rocinante to be his steed and appoints felIow Manchegan Sancho Panza (Yuri ToIubeyev) to be his reIuctant squire. Both Knight and Squire find themselves Iiving anachronisms in 16th Century Spain, subject to constant humiliation and frequent defeat; safeguarded only 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 location 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 visuaI richness and poetic wit. The Iegendary Nikolai Cherkassov (AIexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible) adds a third to his roster of iconic screen roles with his stirring performance as the Knight of the Rueful Face. |
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