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.
Length 94 minutes
Horst Buchholz | Francisco Rabal | Louis Jourdan | José Ferrer | Fernando Rey | José Nieto | Gina Lollobrigida | Fernando Hilbeck | Fernando Bilbao | Ángel del Pozo | George Rigaud | Ricardo Palacios | Tiziano Cortini | Antoine Fontaine | Soledad Miranda | José Canalejas | Juan Cazalilla | Ángel Aranda | Mario Morales | José Marco | Luis Gaspar | José Jaspe | Antonio Casas | Mariano Vidal Molina | Adriano Domínguez | Maurice de Canonge | Fernando Villena | Adolfo Thous | Juan Antonio Peral | Héctor Quiroga | Antonio Almorós | Andrés Mejuto | Eric Chapman | Amparo Díaz | Claudine Dalmas | Ricardo Costa | André Spengler | Amalia Velázquez | José Ignacio Pidal | José González Talavera | Juan Antonio López | Pepita Otero | Gian Castelli | Enzo Curcio | Gaudenzio Di Pietro | Moisés Fernández | Antonio Olaguível | Jaime Pelta | Fernando Rovert | Rita Sanso