Don Quijote

The morality and concept of the story is well likeable, though I haven't read the book, Grigoriy Kozintsev's adaption is not enough engaging to captivate my interest the whole way through. Towards the end the movie has lost it charm and is not enjoyable to watch anymore. It becomes repetitive and feels to long for its ideal self.

While they have captures the atmosphere and the overall the aesthetic very well. Filmed in the Crimea region, where the hilly landscape not only comes close to the Spanish arid regions, but makes them even wider, even more epic.

Nikolai Cherkasov gives the old Knight Don Quixote a frail, spindly look, a man despite the ridicule and violence that sweeps against him, retains his dignity. Meanwhile, with Sancho Panza, played by Yuri Tolubeyev, as his chubby companion, makes his part crystal clear. He is the voice of reality, the contrast to the sprawling fantasy of Don Quixote.