Don Quixote
About Don Quixote
Carl Schenstrøm plays Cervantes's poor landowner, mad on chivalric novels, who rides out in armor to restore the order of knights errant. He hires the peasant Sancho Panza, played by Harald Madsen, with a promise of royal rewards. The pair, already famous in Denmark as Pat and Patachon, go looking for a deed that will make them real knights. Carmen Villa plays Lucinda and Svend Melsing plays Cardenio.
Cast & crew
More about Don Quixote
Lau Lauritzen Sr. wrote and directed the film he had wanted to make from Cervantes. Carlo Bentsen, Hugo J. Fischer, and Julius Jaenzon photographed it. Film-Centralen-Palladium released it at the Palads cinema in Copenhagen on November 30, 1926. The negative is 3,280 meters, 35mm.
Themes
Background
By 1926 the Lauritzen comedies with Schenstrøm and Madsen were being sold outside Denmark under the Pat and Patachon name.
Making
The Danish Film Institute notes that filming Cervantes had been Lauritzen's long ambition, and that Schenstrøm and Madsen were the leads he wanted.
Look
Carlo Bentsen, Hugo J. Fischer, and Julius Jaenzon shared the camera on a 35mm black-and-white negative.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A copy circulates as the Wikimedia Commons file Don Quixote (1926).webm.
Notes
- Schenstrøm and Madsen were already world-known as the comics Fyrtårnet and Bivognen, called Pat and Patachon in English.
- Torben Meyer plays Samson Carrasco. Oscar Stribolt plays a castle priest. Agis Winding plays the housekeeper.
- Other release titles include Don Quichotte and Don Quijote de la Mancha.
- Lili Lani, Philip Bech, and Aage Bendixen are also in the cast.
Scenes
- Schenstrøm rides out in full knight's gear with Madsen hired on as squire.
Influenced by
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605 and 1615)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Don Quixote (1926).webm)
