Don Quixote (1947 film)
Don Quixote | |
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Directed by | Rafael Gil |
Screenplay by | Rafael Gil |
Story by | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Based on | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes |
Produced by | Juan Manuel de Rada |
Starring | Rafael Rivelles Fernando Rey Sara Montiel |
Cinematography | Alfredo Fraile |
Edited by | Juan Serra |
Music by | Ernesto Halffter |
Production company | CIFESA |
Distributed by | CIFESA |
Release date |
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Running time | 137 minutes 107 minutes (U.S.) |
Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
Box office | ESP 769,579 (Spain) |
Don Quixote or Don Quixote de la Mancha (orig. Spanish title Don Quijote de la Mancha) is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic 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 (two hours and twelve minutes, plus an intermission), 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. Characters such as , Dorotea, and Don Fernando, which are usually omitted because their respective subplots have little to do with the main body of the novel, were kept in this film.
The film, which starred Rafael Rivelles as Don Quixote and as Sancho Panza, featured a young Fernando Rey as Sanson Carrasco and popular Spanish actress Sara Montiel as Antonia, Quixote's niece. The music for the film was composed by Ernesto Halffter, and the movie was shot on location in La Mancha and other Spanish regions.
It did not fare as well in the United States, where it opened in 1949, as it had in Spain. In its American runs, it was whittled down to a more customary length of 107 minutes.[1]
References[]
External links[]
- Don Quixote at IMDb
Bibliography[]
- Mira, Alberto. Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
- 1948 films
- Spanish-language films
- 1947 films
- 1940s historical films
- Films based on Don Quixote
- Spanish films
- Spanish historical films
- Films set in the 1600s
- Films directed by Rafael Gil
- Cifesa films
- Films scored by Ernesto Halffter
- Spanish black-and-white films
- 1940s Spanish film stubs