Don Quixote
Best and most original adaptations of the legend and literary icon by Miguel de Cervantes
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- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFeodor Chaliapin Sr.George RobeyOscar AscheIn Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancee, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsRafael RivellesJuan CalvoFernando ReyThe most faithful of all the major film versions of Cervantes' novel.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsNikolay CherkasovYuriy TolubeevSerafima BirmanSenor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
- DirectorVicente EscriváStarsMillie PerkinsFolco LulliWalter SantessoA young lady named Aldonza receives a communication from the famous Don Quixote, via Sancho Panza, and takes on the identity of the Cervantes character Dulcinea, which gets her into trouble.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsCantinflasÁngel GarasaLupita FerrerCantinflas plays a charismatic gooder lawyer in small causes for poorest people that there aren't a penny to pay the coasts to lead it to the Courthouse those weirdest cases, there he misled everybody with his sweet-talk, gaining prestige.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOja KodarPatty McCormackPaola MoriDon Quixote is an unfinished film project produced, written and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography took place between 1957 and 1969. Test footage was filmed as early as 1955, second-unit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film intermittently until his death in 1985.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsPeter O'TooleSophia LorenJames CocoThe funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsCantinflasFernando Fernán GómezMaría Fernanda D'OcónDon Quixote is obsessed with knighthood and its honor codes. Together with his singular squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote remembers the adventures they have shared.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsFrancisco ReigueraAkim TamiroffPepe MediavillaThe story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsTerry GilliamJohnny DeppJeff BridgesTerry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJuan Luis GaliardoCarlos IglesiasJosé Luis TorrijoA film version of the second half of Cervantes' "Don Quixote".
- DirectorKiefer LiuStarsDuo BaPaul ChunJiajia DengDon Quixote is a 2010 Chinese and Hong Kong film directed by Ah Gan based on Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century novel.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJosé Luis FerrerIsmael FritschiJuan López-TagleToby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
- DirectorDidier VolckaertStarsJeroen WillemsTiemen Van HaverEline KuppensSan lives on the border between dream and reality. He does not have any friends and his father is absorbed in his job. When San meets the attractive Isabelle, he falls head-over-heels in love for the first time. Unfortunately, rebellious Isabelle is not at all interested in him. Misunderstood, San escapes from this harsh reality. The unpredictable Quixote is waiting for him there. He has an ingenious plan to conquer Isa's heart, nevertheless. Until San witnesses a drugs deal that unravels, causing irreversible consequences. In the quest for the offender, all of the traces lead to the disappeared San...
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsBrian KeithAlfonso ArauMichele CareyA crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
- DirectorJose PozoStarsJosé Luis GilAndreu BuenafuenteLuis PosadaThe Sancho Panza's donkey Rucio decides to tell the story of Don Quixote. Infact Rucio insists that the knight is not as crazy and out of the ordinary as many think.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsLluís CarbóLluís SerratJaume BadiaIn this minimalist take on Cervantes' Don Quixote story, there are no windmills - only wind, trees, grass and sunlight. It is a soulful study of two lone figures against an unspoiled landscape.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsJohn LithgowBob HoskinsIsabella RosselliniAdapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
- StarsFernando ReyAlfredo LandaFrancisco MerinoMiniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.