![]() It tells a story of the many comedies which fill up the protagonist’s mind and as it passes on his confused state of mind to the audiences within whatever they are witnessing, there are allegories that draw back to what would be noted as scandalous for the time period in which it had come out. The Saragossa Manuscript in its glorious scope fits as much as it can into its running time, as the story-within-a-story framing also begins to put more genre elements into place and in turn create the fascinating experiment to which this was. ![]() It is a gothic tale which we are being told, but also a funnily surrealistic one. Setting established, it is also rather intriguing to see how such a story keeps itself flowing – for it is not only fueled by the mind of the captain but also many background elements come into play. Captain Alfonse von Worden is indeed a man who is of honor and courage but his own destiny presents some sort of odd experiment that has never (and is most unlikely) to be repeated with the same sort of experience which had been left in such a film. Though his mind also serves as a mirror for the confusion to which one can experience when they are engulfed within the many narratives which are at play in The Saragossa Manuscript. In the first half of this complicated story, we are left exploring how his mind had been bringing him around these many people who distract him upon his trial, with all of these stories to which they have to share. Inside of its first half, we are simply following along with the story of the enemy’s ancestor and his trial back to Madrid with very little time on his hands. With the opening establishing the story-within-a-story narrative, everything becomes all the more complicated as the film goes on. The first part of this story details the mind of the captain, whose confused state in turn mirrors the audience upon witnessing the structure to which The Saragossa Manuscript is following. The ancestor is Alfonse von Worden, who was a captain in the Walloon guard. Enemy officers arrive on the spot in order to arrest him, but another officer stops to read the manuscript together with him, recognizing that it is about his grandfather. Zbigniew Cybulski as Alfons von Worden in The Saragossa Manuscript, meeting a princess.Īdapted from the novel of the same name by Jan Potocki, the film is set within the Napoleonic Wars in the Spanish town of Saragossa, we are told a story in two parts of a discovery that opens with a Polish officer entering an abandoned house reading a manuscript with no understanding of the language.
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