Alfonso sleeps in the hermitage's chapel, hearing strange voices at night. He meets a hermit priest who is trying to cure a possessed man the latter tells his story, which also involves two sisters and a different kind of forbidden love. He wakes and finds himself back in the desolate countryside, lying next to a heap of skulls under a gallows. Then they seduce him and give him a skull goblet to drink. He jokingly calls them ghosts (despite having told his servants with great bravado that ghosts do not exist). They inform the captain that they are his cousins and, as the last of the Gomelez line, he must marry them both to provide heirs. At an apparently deserted inn, the Venta Quemada, he is invited to dine with two Moorish princesses, Emina ( Iga Cembrzyńska) and Zibelda ( Joanna Jędryka) in a secret inner room. The two men warn him against taking his chosen route because it leads through haunted territory. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.Ī flashback then recounts the tale of the ancestor, Alfonso van Worden ( Zbigniew Cybulski), who appears with two servants, seeking the shortest route through the Sierra Morena Mountains. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. Plot ĭuring a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. In the 2015 poll conducted by Polish Museum of Cinematography in Łódź, The Saragossa Manuscript came second on the list of the greatest Polish films of all time. It later also achieved a level of critical success in the United States, when filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rediscovered it and encouraged its propagation. The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of socialist eastern Europe upon its release. Van Worden travelled in the region many years before, being plagued by evil spirits, and meeting such figures as a Qabalist, a sultan and a Romani person, who tell him further stories, many of which intertwine and interrelate with one another. In a deserted house during the Napoleonic Wars, two officers from opposing sides find a manuscript, which tells the tale of the Spanish officer's grandfather, Alphonso van Worden ( Zbigniew Cybulski). Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. The Saragossa Manuscript ( Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.
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