#  Film Screening: "The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie)" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 17, 2015** 

 07:00PM - 10:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts**  



 

 



 

   ![The Saragossa Manuscript](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/cmes/files/has_saragossa.jpg?itok=tbqXZIG2) 

 

Presented by the Harvard Film Archive and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies   
in conjunction with ["The Thousand and One Nights: Sources, Transformations, and Relationship with Literature, the Arts and the Sciences"](/event/thousand-and-one-nights-sources-transformations-and-relationship-literature-arts-and-0). *Directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has. With Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska  
Poland 1964, DCP, b/w, 182 min. Polish with English subtitles*

 Admired by the likes of Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Lucrecia Martel and Jerry Garcia—who spearheaded its 1997 restoration—*The Saragossa Manuscript* fully deserves its legendary status as one of most unclassifiable and extraordinary cult/art films of the postwar European cinema. Has's oneiric trance film famously uses a Russian doll structure to leap across time and space, following its unlikely hero across a series of bleak, frightening yet strangely exuberant, landscapes, largely set in a dream Andalusia. Grim and ecstatic, febrile and hypnotic, Has's Gothic fantasy is a heady affirmation of the power of the cinematic imagination to create and destroy entire worlds. Almost as legendary as *The Saragossa Manuscript* is its haunting electroacoustic score by Polish master composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

 **Note: This is a ticketed screening. Visit the Harvard Film Archive website for more information.**

 **Contact:** Harvard Film Archive, 617-495-4700  
**Sponsors:** Harvard Film Archive, Center for Middle Eastern Studies



 

 



 

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