- The Saragossa Manuscript (La Manuscrit Trouve A Saragosse)
- Production year: 1964
- Country: Rest of the world
- Runtime: 175 mins
- Directors: Wojciech Has
- Cast: Iga Cembrzynska, Joanna Jedryka, Zbigniew Cybulski
If Alejandro Jodorowsky had got his hands on The Seventh Seal it might have looked like this. The Saragossa Manuscript was shot in 1964 by Polish maverick Wojciech Has and was reputedly the favourite film of both Luis Buñuel and Jerry Garcia. Nominally set during the Napoleonic wars, Has's teasing, languid pageant finds room for all kinds of surreal set-pieces (Muslim temptresses, Spanish inquisitors and all). "It's enough to drive you crazy," murmurs Alphonse van Worden's guardsman as he pores over his dusty book of enchantments. It is - but the trip is peculiarly engrossing.