Framing Device: The Saragossa Manuscript itself.Forgotten Framing Device: The film ends without returning to the primary level of the Nested Story, the one with the two opposing soldiers reading the manuscript.The latter's entry is implied to happen in a house where the ladder may as well be a permanent fixture. Enter Stage Window: Used twice (on different windows), by Lopez and later Busqueros.Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonse confirms it. Alfonse's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. Duel to the Death: This being Spain, happens or is mentioned frequently. Dream Within a Dream: Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end.Demonic Possession: Pacheco suffers from this, until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans.What Toledo hears later that night during a thunderstorm makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. Dead Person Conversation: Toledo's close friend dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost.Contemplate Our Navels: Don Pedro Velasquez entertains deep philosophical questions at the table which Alfonse admits to be unable to follow.By the time Gaspar catches up with Lopez, he has broken all four commandments by associating with Don Roque Busqueros, who addresses him as "Don Lopez Soarez" and has fought a duel with him when Lopez interrupted his story about Frasquetta, and by seeking the hand of Moro's daughter Inez in marriage. The Commandments: Gaspar Soarez gives his son Lopez a set of four strict instructions before sending him out into the world: do not associate with noblemen, do not use the title "Don", do not get into swordfights, and do not associate with the family of royal banker Moro.The Spanish Inquisition acts as a Border Patrol, preventing him from getting on with his journey to Madrid. Closed Circle: Alfonse seem to go be caught in a in closed circles between the gallows and the inn.The second time, they manage to get Velasquez by mistake. The first time, they succeed, and he's only rescued from the torture chambers by the Zota brothers. The Church: The Spanish Inquisition plans to waylay Alfonse a couple of times.Blood from the Mouth: Toledo's friend who dies in a duel is shown with blood from his mouth when disclosed on the stretcher."Do they, by chance, have the habit of coming down?" Somebody hanged a couple of random guys to appease the locals that something was being done. Back from the Dead: The Zota brothers were hanged for being notorious bandits, but make an appearance in one of the stories.Retreat! Retreat!: The army officer in the beginning starts an attack only to retreat immediately. This film provides examples of the following tropes: Along the way he is seduced, drugged, seduced again, drugged again, and told numerous stories, in which some of the characters begin telling stories of their own. Warned of gypsies and ghosts, he resolves to proceed anyway. As it so happens, the book talks about his ancestor.Īlfonse van Worden, captain of the Spanish Walloon Guard, is attempting to reach Madrid over the mountains with his two servants. An enemy officer arrives, tries to arrest him, and gets drawn in as well. The movie begins with the discovery of the titular manuscript by an army officer, who (in the middle of a battle) begins thumbing through it to admire the artwork. He returns to Venta Quemada, the women await with astonishing news.The Saragossa Manuscript is a 1965 film by Polish director Wojciech Has, based on The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, written in 1815. He's rescued from the Inquisition, meets a cabalist and hears more stories within stories, usually of love. He meets a hermit priest and a goatherd each tells his story he wakes again by the gallows. They call him their cousin and seduce him he wakes beside corpses under a gallows. At an inn, the Venta Quemada, he sups with two Islamic princesses. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard.
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