The Saragossa Manuscript

Details

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Aleksander Walijewski) was limited to 2,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

Yellow Veil Pictures is a New York City and Los Angeles-based film sales and distribution company focusing exclusively on boundary pushing genre cinema, seeking to highlight filmmakers who exist on the cusp of commercial and arthouse cinema.

Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film follows the exploits of Alfons von Worden, an officer traveling through the sierra Mountains and with each passing traveler, the interweaving stories grow stranger.

One of Wojciech Has’ most acclaimed films, this surrealist cult epic has attracted support from Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

directed by: Wojciech Has
starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Gustaw Holoubek, Stanislaw Igar, Joanna Jedryka, Janusz Klosinski, Bogumil Kobiela, Barbara Krafftówna
1965 / 184 min / 2.35:1 / Polish DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• Introduction’s Notes on The Saragossa Manuscript by Annette Insdorf, Film Professor at Columbia University, and author of books including "Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has”
• Post Screening’s Notes on The Saragossa Manuscript by Annette Insdorf
• Discussion on The Saragossa Manuscript with Sebastian Smoliński, Film Critic
• Written Essay by Anton Bitel, Film Crtitic
• Written Essay by Annette Insdorf
• English subtitles