Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

94 mins
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.

Horst Buchholz

Miguel de Cervantes

José Ferrer

Hassan Bey

Louis Jourdan

Cardinal Acquaviva

Francisco Rabal

Rodrigo Cervantes

Ángel del Pozo

Don Juan de Austria

José Jaspe

Turkish Official

José Nieto

Minister of Felipe II

Andrés Mejuto

Cervantes' Father

George Rigaud

Count di Luca

Fernando Rey

Filipe II

Antonio Almorós

(uncredited)

Ángel Aranda

(uncredited)

Fernando Bilbao

(uncredited)

José Canalejas

(uncredited)

Gian Castelli

(uncredited)

Juan Cazalilla

Priest (uncredited)

Eric Chapman

(uncredited)

Ricardo Costa

(uncredited)

Enzo Curcio

(uncredited)

Adriano Domínguez

(uncredited)

Amparo Díaz

(uncredited)

Moisés Fernández

(uncredited)

Luis Gaspar

(uncredited)

Antonio Olaguível

(uncredited)

Pepita Otero

(uncredited)

Jaime Pelta

(uncredited)

Juan Antonio Peral

(uncredited)

Héctor Quiroga

(uncredited)

Fernando Rovert

(uncredited)

Rita Sanso

(uncredited)

Adolfo Thous

(uncredited)

Fernando Villena

(uncredited)

Mariano Vidal Molina

Diego de Urbina (uncredited)

Edmond Richard

Director of Photography

Jean Ledrut

Original Music Composer

David Karp

Screenplay

Enrique Llovet

Screenplay

Federico Del Zoppo

Camera Operator

Enrique Alarcón

Production Design

Luis Argüello

Costume Designer

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