• Rating:
• Genre: Adventure
• Movie Type: Biography
• Director: Vincent Sherman
• Release Year: 1969
• Country: FR/ES/IT
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Horst Buchholz - Miguel de Cervantes
Antonio Casas
Angel del Pozo
Fernando Hilbeck
Louis Jourdan - Cardinal Acquaviva
Gina Lollobrigida - Giulia
Jose Marco
Soledad Miranda - Nessa
Vidal Molina
Ricardo Palacios
Francisco Rabal - Rodrigo de Cervantes
Fernando Rey - Philip II of Spain
Georges Rigaud
Maurice de Canonge
José Ferrer - Hassam Bey
Jose Nieto
Fernando Villena
Jose Jaspe
Mario Morales
Andres Mejuto
Antonio Vidal Molina

Credit

Enrique Alarcon - Art Director; Les Baxter - Composer (Music Score); Margarita Ochoa - Editor; Edmond Richard - Cinematographer; Vincent Sherman - Director; Manuel Baquero - Special Effects; Bruno Frank - Screenwriter; Bruno Frank - Book Author; Henry T. Weinstein - Producer; Luis Arguello - Costume Designer; Peris - Costume Designer; Angel Arteaga - Composer (Music Score); Jean Ledrut - Composer (Music Score); David Karp - Screenwriter; Miguel Salkind - Producer; Augusto Boue - Production Manager