Fresh
The director's eye for baroque black-and-white imagery puts him behind only Bava and Welles, while the film's sharp social satire gives heft to its ambition.
David Fear, Time Out New York
The Saragossa Manuscript
1966 · 3h 3m · N/A
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Directed by
Wojciech Has
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Director and cast
- Wojciech Has Director
- Zbigniew Cybulski as Alfonse Van Worden
- Iga Cembrzyńska as Princess Emina
- Elżbieta Czyżewska as Donna Frasquetta Salero
- Gustaw Holoubek as Don Pedro Velasquez
- Stanisław Igar as Don Gaspar Soarez
- Joanna Jędryka as Zibelda
- Janusz Kłosiński as Don Diego Salero
- Bogumił Kobiela as Senor Toledo
- Barbara Krafftówna as Camilla de Tormez
- Jadwiga Krawczyk as Donna Inez Moro
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
By any standard, a long strange trip.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
Infus[es] a similar unearthly cadenceo the swashbuckling genre that Jodorowski did to the western with El Topo.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
These trials suggest a goofy, sprawling, all-purpose allegory so overstuffed with symbolism that it plays as a kind of epic spoof of the form.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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