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	The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (original French title Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, also known in English as Saragossa Manuscript), by the Polish author Jan Potocki (1761-1815), is a frame tale novel from the period of the Napoleonic Wars.
		The novel was adapted as a Polish-language film by the director Wojciech Has in 1965 and later as a Romanian-language play, Saragosa, 66 de Zile (Saragossa, 66 Days) written and directed by Alexandru Dabija.
		The stories cover a wide range of genres and subjects, including the gothic, the picaresque, the erotic, the historical, the moral, and the philosophic; and as a whole the novel reflects Potocki's far-reaching interests, but especially his deep fascination with secret societies, the supernatural, and so-called Oriental cultures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Manuscript_Found_in_Saragossa (308 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Saragossa Manuscript
		In the case of The Saragossa Manuscript (1965), the equation is reversed; anyone going into this three-hour mind-fuck straight may well come out feeling stoned.
		The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1813) was his crowning work, favorably compared by aficionados to The Decameron and The Arabian Nights for its rich folkloric elements, supernatural motifs, bawdy humor, and surreal touches.
		In an abandoned house he becomes entranced by an old book (the "Saragossa manuscript") that chronicles the life of one of his famous ancestors.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /27/saragossa.html (863 words)

	FT 140 - The Mystical Count Potocki
		The Saragossa Manuscript – as it is often called – is a weird farrago of stories within stories, with an overall supernatural bent, modelled in many ways on The Arabian Nights.
		The Manuscript Found In Saragossa purports to be a document discovered in 1809 by a French soldier out looting after the fall of the Spanish city of Saragossa to the French and Polish armies.
		The manuscript recounts the strange adventures of another military officer, one Alphonse van Worden, who, some 40 years earlier, comes upon a weird crew of ghosts, magicians, dervishes, seductresses and sheikhs as he passes through the mountains of the Sierra Morena, on his way to rejoin his regiment in Madrid.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/140_potocki.shtml (3442 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Manifestations of the latter are seen in Has’s The Manuscript, be it in the princesses’ oriental costumes or the Polish Rider’s (lisowczyk’s) cap.
		In The Saragossa Manuscript the most representative scene is that in the cave in which Alfons sees his double in the mirror and when he notices the auberge’s princesses for the last time.
		In Maria Kornatowska’s view, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Sandglass are the fullest and the most profound statement of Has’s vision of things and phenomena, of the ”single rhetoric alchemically consolidating life and death, reality and dream, fiction and the real” (27).
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue12/saragossa.html (3573 words)

	Saragossa Manuscript - Review - Piddleville
		The Saragossa Manuscript, set during the Napoleonic Wars, is told in the manner of The Book of a Thousand and One Nights and, to a lesser extent, The Canterbury Tales.
		Admired by such names as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and (oddly) Jerry Garcia, The Saragossa Manuscript DVD is a clean, crisp version (taken in the context of its age and the fact it had to be restored).
		Filled with stunning images and moving from the strange to the lascivious to the dramatic, this is a fabulous film and a definite must for anyone who loves stories and wishes to see how film is simply another branch of literature (albiet one with its own rules and traditions).
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review068_SaragossaManuscript.htm (452 words)

	The Saragossa Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"The Saragossa Manuscript" (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is based on a novel that takes place during the Napoleonic wars.
		"The Saragossa Manuscript" is a Polish film, and this edition has English subtitles.
		The opening sequence follows a soldier during the Napoleanic Wars as he takes refuge in a house where he finds the Saragossa Manuscript full of surreal drawings and stories.
	sf.at-cha.com /movie/the-saragossa-manuscript.html (611 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The Saragossa Manuscript was the sixth feature directed by the Cracow-born Has.
		Four years after the shortened The Saragossa Manuscript made a huge impact worldwide, with no less than Luis Buñuel lauding it, came The Doll (1968), Has's first film in colour, a story of unrequited love combined with a sharply satirical observation of Polish society during the turbulence of the mid-19th century, exposing snobbery and greed.
		At the heart of nearly every Has film is the idea of the journey - sometimes tangible, as in The Saragossa Manuscript, and sometimes spiritual, as in The Hourglass Sanatorium.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4072138,00.html (711 words)

	"Saragossa Manuscript': Legendary film resurfaces
		WOJCIECH HAS' "The Saragossa Manuscript" (1965) has become a legendary film because of its disappearance, almost piece by piece, over the years.
		"Saragossa" is known for its tremendous variety of characters, its chronological breadth and its tapestry of stories (interwoven and restated in unexpected forms).
		It's a work of great social reach, with characters ranging from peasantry to royalty, and one that deceptively mixes fantasy and reality, a gesture that gives the audience little to rely on in terms of determining the truth of what it sees.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1999/08/06/WEEKEND739.dtl&type=printable (174 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Saragossa Manuscript
		It was in 1965 that he and two friends stumbled upon Polish director Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript at Centro Cedar Cinema in North Beach, and after that night Garcia always said that it was his favorite film, with its head-spinning blend of multiple narratives and sardonic humor.
		In fact, Garcia was so enamored of The Saragossa Manuscript that he offered the Pacific Film Archive the funding necessary to purchase a print of the film for their holdings, with the only caveat being that he would be allowed to watch it any time he wanted.
		Image Entertainment's DVD edition of The Saragossa Manuscript features a clean anamorphic transfer (1.85:1) of the restored fl-and-white source print, and it looks marvelous, with only some small collateral flecking and vivid low-contrast detail, rivaling the appearance of many American films from the same era on DVD.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/saragossamanuscript.q.shtml (734 words)

	Eye - The never-ending story - 12.02.99
		Born in 1761, Potocki was a Polish aristocrat, adventurer, activist and publisher who, in December of 1815 (according to one story), fashioned a silver bullet from the knob of his teapot, had it blessed by a chaplain and then shot himself in the head.
		The book and the film both contain a fictional preface in which the titular manuscript is discovered by a French officer in Spain during the Napoleonic wars.
		The manuscript is the memoir of Alphonse van Worden, an officer whose attempts to rejoin his regiment in Madrid in 1739 are foiled by a seemingly endless series of adventures and stories.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.02.99/film/saragossa.html (784 words)

	The Saragossa Manuscript : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He finds the manuscript in Spain, and in Spain is where all the film´s action´s set.
		In the middle of a battle in Spain during the Napoleonic wars, two soldiers from opposite sides are suddenly entranced by a manuscript.
		Enter a dazzling, mysterious world of the supernatural courtesy of "The Saragossa Manuscript," a magical text discovered during the Napoleonic Wars by a pair of opposing soldiers.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00005Y6YR.html (1532 words)

	'Saragossa Manuscript': Worth 1,000 Words? More Like a Gazillion
		There comes a point late in Wojciech Has' teasingly labyrinthine three-hour film, "The Saragossa Manuscript," when so many phantasmagoric stories have sprouted out of one another in such rapid succession that the mind begins to reel.
		Questions of who did what to whom and which adventures were charades invented by characters who revel in deceit, and which were not, begin to blur into a surreal comic vision of a world in which reality and fantasy are indistinguishable.
		The story begins in the heat of battle as Alphonse, who has fled to a cabin, is mysteriously attracted to a manuscript whose pictures are so compelling he barely notices when enemy soldiers arrive to arrest him.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/052199saragossa-film-review.html (493 words)

	The Saragossa Manuscript Movie: The Saragossa Manuscript DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This captivating Polish film was based on the most famous work of Count Jan Patocki (1761-1815), written in French (and published in France in 1813) as a series of stories to amuse his ailing wife.
		Distributor Notes Enter a dazzling, mysterious world of the supernatural courtesy of "The Saragossa Manuscript," a magical text discovered during the Napoleonic Wars by a pair of opposing soldiers.
		Spanning centuries and nations, the manuscript's reach encompasses a wide array of stories both humorous and horrifying, gleeful and grotesque, before the final chilling revelations bring this one of a kind book to a close.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/014381056327IE (344 words)

	The Makers
		Wojciech Has, the director of The Saragossa Manuscript, died on Tuesday, 3 October 2000, at the age of 75.
		Despite the powerful influence of the Polish school of film, he has remained the ultimately independent director.
		The Saragossa Manuscript is perhaps the most original film ever produced in Polish cinema.
	www.wsp.krakow.pl /nkja/literature/saragossa/makers.htm (64 words)

	The Music
		The plot of The Saragossa Manuscript is punctuated, or counterpointed, with eerie sounds by one of the makers of contemporary musical avant-garde, Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
		The music in The Saragossa Manuscript it is a stylistic pastiche of late Baroque and early Classicism, a blend of Vivaldi and of early Mozart.
		The oft-mentioned quotation from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (to be procise, of its fourth movement) is, in fact, a quasi-quotation, for Penderecki has adapted the famous fragment of the first stanza of 'Ode to Joy' to be performed by a much smaller ensemble; the original would require solo counterbasses and, later, choir with orchestra.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~slav412/music.htm (244 words)

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		So maybe you should know that The Saragossa Manuscript, the ultimate anti-blockbuster, was the favorite film of none other than Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia.
		Wojciech Has' movie is a Napoleonic-era phantasmagoria, with magic potions drunk out of skulls; hanged bandit brothers coming down from the gallows; crazed hermits warning of the wiles of Satan; gypsies recounting amatory adventures; and two beautiful, possibly incestuous Tunisian princesses wooing a Belgian officer in hopes of effecting a threesome.
		Yes, The Saragossa Manuscript is trippy as all get out, but that shorthand description falls woefully short of doing justice to an intensely hypnotic piece of work.
	www.citypaper.com /film/print_review.asp?id=2384 (664 words)

	DVD Times - The Saragossa Manuscript
		The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, literally The Manuscript Found at Saragossa) is based on a novel by Count Jan Potocki, a famous Polish scholar, traveller and adventurer, who died in 1815.
		The Saragossa Manuscript was shot in Dyaliscope, a French Scope process using anamorphic lenses (Truffaut’s first three features used it as did, more pertinently, Andrzej Munk’s unfinished Pasażerka (Passenger), made in Poland in 1962).
		The Saragossa Manuscript is a film that demands repeated viewings to appreciate all its intricacies and riches.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4242 (1913 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) - Printable
		This remastered, full-length director's cut of the surreal Wojciech Has experiment known as The Saragossa Manuscript is a fitting treatment of his grandiose attempt at adapting the weighty novel written by Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815).
		The Saragossa Manuscript is a long, twisty collection of stories-within-stories, that occasionally loop back on one another, creating a sometimes confusing array of characters.
		Image Transfer Review: Presented in a 2:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, The Saragossa Manuscript is now in what is probably the finest condition it has ever been in.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=3272 (713 words)

	Lycos Movies
		Based on the early 19th century novel by Polish author Jan Potocki, THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT is a brilliant, sexy and extraordinarily imaginative film.
		Erotic and supernatural, THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT was beloved by Alexander Pushkin as a novel; as a film, it was a longtime favorite of the Grateful Dead¹s Jerry Garcia.
		THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT is being presented, in a beautiful new print restored to its complete three hour length, by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, in dedication to the memory of Jerry Garcia.
	entertainment.lycos.com /movies/movie.asp?id=4418 (192 words)

	Fright Site, Saragossa Manuscript Movie Review
		The book tells of a young captain traveling through Spain where just about everyone he meets shares a story.* The characters within each story also have a passion for storytelling, as do the characters in each of their stories, until the recursive individual tales eventually parallel, extend or just fill in the blanks of one-another.
		A major scene toward the end of TSM has a group of characters attempting to sort out the impossibly convoluted narrative they find themselves trapped inside...it's that confusing.
		Further complicating matters is a recurring motif where the hero awakens under a gallows tree, realizes that the preceding events have all been a dream, and, sure enough, finds himself waking up under that same gallows tree again and again...
	www.fright.com /edge/saragossa.html (533 words)

	Film Listings Archive: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Garcia, who knew the work from the truncated, 124-minute version circulated in the U.S. and Britain in the 1960s, cited it as his favourite film, and was instrumental in its recent restoration.
		Several years before he died, Garcia learned that the original three-hour version of The Saragossa Manuscript had never been released in North America.
		Entranced by the fantastical pictures in a magical Spanish manuscript, and enchanted by two beautiful, scantily-clad Moorish princesses, he finds himself caught up in an Arabian Nights-like chain of dreamy escapades and rude awakenings, involving sex and skulduggery, ghosts and haunted gallows, cabbalists and cuckolds, gypsies, sheiks and sinister Faustian bargains.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/saragossa.html (458 words)

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	ipedia.com: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by the aristocratic Polish author Jan Potocki, is a frame tale novel from the period of the Napoleanic Wars.
		The novel was adapted as a Polish-language film by the d...
		The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (also known as Saragossa Manuscript), by the aristocratic Polish author Jan Potocki (1761-1815), is a frame tale novel from the period of the Napoleanic Wars.
	www.ipedia.com /the_manuscript_found_in_saragossa.html (335 words)

	Saragossa Manuscript
		The book captures the enemy’s interest as well, and he sends his three men back to the battle while he joins his attention to read the manuscript.
		From the beginning of the film, it is clear that The Saragossa Manuscript is not at all like the previous films we have viewed.
		Throughout the movie that becomes more and more obvious when you see female nudes in the same scenes with skeletons and characters with distorted parts of their bodies.
	www.wsp.krakow.pl /nkja/literature/saragossa/klara.htm (1073 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - The Saragossa Manuscript
		Set in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, Wojciech Has’ The Saragossa Manuscript is surely one of the most convolutedly plotted films ever to reach the silver screen.
		At an epic three hours and two minutes long, the film has plenty of time to spin its story, and the story, actually I should say stories, that get spun are so intertwined and desultory that you keep waiting for the movie to run out of narrative thread, but it never does.
		Despite the varying tones and narrators that populate The Saragossa Manuscript, it’s tough to deny that the entire film feels as if it’s being governed by a unified directorial style.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1965/saragossamanuscript.htm (450 words)

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