Don Quixote / Don Kikhot (1957)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6000 kbps | 6.1Gb
Audio: #1 Russian AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps, #2 Russian AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps, #3 Spanih AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian
01:50:00 | Soviet Union | Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6000 kbps | 6.1Gb
Audio: #1 Russian AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps, #2 Russian AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps, #3 Spanih AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian
01:50:00 | Soviet Union | Drama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard
Director: Grigori Kozintsev
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Serafima Birman, Lyudmila Kasyanova, Svetlana Grigoryeva, Vladimir Maksimov, Viktor Kolpakov, Tamilla Agamirova, Georgiy Vitsin, Bruno Frejndlikh, Lidiya Vertinskaya, Galina Volchek, Olga Vikland, Aleksandr Benyaminov, S. Tsomayev, N. Anisimova, Svetlana Batalova, Igor Belskiy, M. Korolyov, Valentina Kovel, Zh. Letsky, G. Malyshev, Georgiy Osipenko, V. Osipov, Aleksey Rozanov, Vladimir Vasilyev, Arnold Diamond, Bettina Dickson, Peter Elliot, Olive Gregg
Based upon “the world’s first novel” (Carlos Fuentes) by Miguel de Cervantes, “The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”. Writing “Don Quixote” in the early 17th century was a necessary undertaking, if, perhaps, fatal; in the early 20th century it’s all but unfeasible. Jorge Luis BorgesA poll by the Norwegian Nobel Institute of 100 most famous modern writers named Cervantes’ novel the best book of all times and peoples! A brilliant acting cast – N. Cherkasov (“Alexander Nevsky”), S. Birman (“Ivan the Terrible”, B. Freindlikh (“Twelfth Night”, “Different Fortunes”), L. Vertinskaya (“Sadko”), G. Vitsin (“Gentlemen of Fortune”), Yu. Tolubeyev (“The Inspector General”), G. Volchek (“King Lear”) – in the legendary literary adaptation of the great G. Kozintsev about the amusing and touching adventures of hidalgo Alonso Quixano who, being in love with books of chivalry, decided to make a knight-errant of himself and set out on the march…
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Extras:
- Miguel Cervantes Saavedra
- Interview with the Cameraman E.Rozovsky
- Photo Album