The handwriting of Zaragoza (film)
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| German title | The handwriting of Zaragoza |
| Original title | Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 182 minutes |
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| Director | Wojciech Has |
| script | Tadeusz Kwiatkowski |
| music | Krzysztof Penderecki |
| camera | Mieczyslaw Jahoda |
| cut | Krystyna Komosinska |
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The Handwriting of Zaragoza is a film adaptation from 1964 by Polish director Wojciech Has . The Polish black-and-white film uses a surrealist and expressionist image composition and an imaginative non-linear narrative structure and served as an inspiration for well-known directors and artists such as Martin Scorsese , Francis Ford Coppola , Luis Buñuel , Lars von Trier , Harvey Keitel and Jerry García , who repeats it as one of her favorite films.
In various international publications, the original 180-minute long film was severely shortened, to 147 minutes in Great Britain and 125 minutes in the USA. During the 1990s, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry García, along with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, financed the restoration of an uncut version so that the film could be released on DVD for the first time in 2002.
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the work had its premiere on June 4, 1968 in the program of the first German television ( ARD ).
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During the Napoleonic wars in Spain, two enemy officers find an old manuscript in a hut and forget about the war and the soldiers fighting outside the hut after reading the richly illustrated manuscript.
Now the film tells the story of the young Walloon officer Alfons van Worden, who rides through the wild and inaccessible Sierra Morena in 1739 . He meets two Moorish princesses who pretend to be his relatives. After a hot night he wakes up under a gallows next to two hanged men. He thinks he was seduced by demons. From now on he repeatedly wakes up under the gallows or in the dungeons of the Inquisition , history takes on increasingly delusional features. Van Worden meets many people who tell him their life stories, which get entangled with one another in a variety of ways and branch out further and further and are funny or scary.
Reviews
“Seen from the outside a historical equipment film, The Handwriting of Saragossa is actually one of the great classics of fantastic film. ... In the second half of the three-hour epic, Has interleaves so many flashbacks that the viewer becomes dizzy; the narrative architecture becomes a labyrinth, the dramaturgy a tightrope act of what is barely possible; although the film can be described as a philosophical treatise on the struggle of rationalism against superstition, it never loses its polished elegance, its subtle amusement ”
“The plot is full of imagination and ingenuity. Like the doll in the doll, every single story contains new ones that are told in nested flashbacks. Again and again a thread is picked up and again confused by references and allusions. And in the end, the confusing network is dissolved playfully and with a wink. It is designed with a high level of intelligence, a sure sense of style and a feeling for romantic irony. "
"An artistic film, especially because of the skilful interleaving of the events and reports, an extra pleasure for viewers from 16."
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The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Polish explorer and novelist Jan Graf Potocki (1760–1815), on which the latter worked until his death.
See also
Web links
- The Manuscript Found in Saragossa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The handwriting of Saragossa at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
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- ^ Gregor, Ulrich : Geschichte des Films, 1968, ISBN 3-570-00816-9
- ^ Reclams Filmführer, 2.A. 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 277/1968.