movie poster for THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

Flicks ID

15098

Cert

15

Running time

182 mins

Country

Format

DVD

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1964)

WOJCIECH HAS

Plot

To spark up or not to spark up? This rambling, flamboyant, incoherent ‘head movie' should be approached with caution by anyone who hasn't got any drugs in their system. In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story. On a trip to Madrid a Belgian soldier takes a short cut across the mountains, a land of robbers, body snatching gypsies and devils, and stays at an inn named the Venta Quemada....Luis Buñuel (who seldom viewed movies more than once) liked this film so much he watched it three times, ditto Scorcese, Coppola and Jerry Garcia!!