Don Quixote

Don Quixote (1947)

Don Quijote de la Mancha

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Date of release
1947-03-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (16)
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Drama, Adventure
Director
Rafael Gil

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Don Quixote

Don Quixote or Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947. A huge undertaking for Spanish cinema in its day, it was the longest film version of the novel up to that time, and very likely the most faithful, reverently following the book in its dialogue and order of episodes, unlike G.W. Pabst's 1933 version and the later Russian film version, which scrambled up the order of the adventures as many film versions do.

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