Zbigniew Cybulski,
Franciszek Pieczka,
Leon Niemczyk,
Elzbieta Czyzewska,
Bogumil Kobiela
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Alfons (Zbigniew Cybulski) is a young army captain who meets two women of Moorish ancestry at what appears to be a deserted inn near Madrid. They tell Alfons he is the descendant of a noble family and... read more
DVD Release Date: March 26, 2002
Stats: 120 reviews
Great movie. Kinda sucky American DVD though. The aspect ratio looks wrong and no extras to speak of. This film has so much going on it practically cries out for a scholarly commentary.
a stupendous surrealist mindfuck of a movie based on what can only be a fantastic book by a complete madman...takes place in spain but filmed in polish and from there it only gets weirder. the intricate story structure folds back on itself multiple times, with characters includi... read more
Polish black and white film about Alfonso van Worden, captain in the Walloon Guard. What happens to him, and then what happens to other people, and then stories that turn into other stories ..... a bit like the Thousand and One Arabian Nights, except it only took me four consecut... read more
By the Elysian Fields and Hades,the photographic proportions of this film were highly jubilant!The farcical approach helps to create a Dionysian environment and at times,a zany comprehension of non-linear events,in which the ending is unimportant...Wojciech Has prefers to entice ... read more
Honestly, one of the best films I've ever seen. The narrative is always prepared to take you someplace else, regardless of whether you want to go.
These trials suggest a goofy, sprawling, all-purpose allegory so overstuffed with symbolism that it plays as a kind of epic spoof of the form. Full Review
It's not quite as life-changing as all that, but it's certainly playful and very interesting as a study of narrative flow. Full Review
a maddening celebration of the power of narrative to amuse, bewilder, disorient and entrap. Full Review
The director's eye for baroque black-and-white imagery puts him behind only Bava and Welles, while the film's sharp social satire gives heft to its ambition. Full Review
Infus[es] a similar unearthly cadenceo the swashbuckling genre that Jodorowski did to the western with El Topo. Full Review
A wonderful, surreal assault on narrative; it's funny, intelligent, and a ridiculously sly good time.
Surely one of the most convolutedly plotted films ever to reach the silver screen. Full Review
The three-hour movie is frequently described as a Chinese box of imaginative stories within stories based on an early 19th-century novel by Jan Potocki. Full Review
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Zbigniew Cybulski as Capt. Alfons van Worden
Franciszek Pieczka as Pascheco
Leon Niemczyk as Don Avadoro
Elzbieta Czyzewska as Frasquetta
Bogumil Kobiela as Toledo
Adam Pawlikowski as Cabalist
Aleksander Fogiel as Spanish nobleman
Beata Tyszkiewicz as Dona Rebeca Uzeda
Gustaw Holoubek as Don Pedro Velasquez
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