Film Restored – ‘Don Quixote’

European Restorations | Transnational

FR 1933, Director: G.W. Pabst

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Original format: 35 mm, 1.33:1, bw

DCP 2K, 89 min, Deutsche Kinemathek
Introduction: Hervé Pichard (Cinémathèque française)

Based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes

Amid the new proliferation of talkies, G.W. Pabst shot ‘Don Quixote’ in three languages – French, English, and German – while still honoring the narrative style and grammar of silent films. Pitched between drama and comedy, and with a nod to the tragedy unfolding in 1930s Europe, this droll, singing knight-errant is felled not by windmills, but by a polity kept ignorant and the tyranny of power.

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