The Saragossa Manuscript (1966)
Directed by Wojciech Has
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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But it is something considerably more idiosyncratic, a medieval epic closer to something like The Saragossa Manuscript or other European (as well as Russian) cinematic fables for adults than the more juvenile action-and-FX spectacles Hollywood offers in that vein.
The Fountain is probably the deftest stories-within-stories narrative film I've seen since the very different 1965 Polish film The Saragossa Manuscript (itself based on an early 19th-century novel).
The Saragossa Manuscript, directed by Wojciech Has from Jan Potocki's episodic early-19th-century novel, is part Alice in Wonderland, part Arabian Nights.
There’s so much drilled into the layers of the story, the whole thing seems about to turn into Jerry Garcia’s favorite movie, The Saragossa Manuscript.
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Based on David Mitchell’s novel — more like six novels really, with each one executed in a different genre, then split and wrapped around the next in a nested, “The Saragossa Manuscript”-style construction — this daunting adaptation rejects the book’s innovative, but overly literary format in favor or a more cinematic approach, opting to tell all half-dozen tales at once.