Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where hes about to become a governor.
2000
HD
139min
NR
United States
English
Peter Yates
John Lithgow
Isabella Rossellini
Bob Hoskins
Vanessa Williams
Peter Eyre
Amelia Warner
Lambert Wilson
James Purefoy
Tony Haygarth
satire
wine
don quixote
foreign language adaptation
gentleman
