The Saragossa Manuscript (film)

The Saragossa Manuscript Polish Rkopis 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. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. In a deserted house during the Napoleonic Wars, two officers from opposing sides find a manuscript, which tells the tale of the Spanish officers grandfather, Alphonso van Worden Zbigniew Cybulski. 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 gypsy, who tell him further stories, many of which intertwine and interrelate with one another.

During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa Zaragoza during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. 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.The ancestor, Alfonso van Worden Zbigniew Cybulski, appears with two servants, seeking the shortest route through the Sierra Morena Mountains. The two men warn him against taking his chosen route because it leads through haunted territory. At an apparently deserted inn, the Venta Quemada, he is invited to dine with two Moorish princesses, Emina Iga Cembrzyska and Zibelda Joanna Jdryka in a secret inner room. 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. However, he must convert to Islam. He jokingly calls them ghosts despite having told his servants with great bravado that ghosts do not exist. Then they seduce him and give him a skull goblet to drink. ........

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