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** "Do they, by chance, have the habit of coming down?" "Very often, usually at night."
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"Very often, usually at night."
* TheCommandments: Gaspar Soarez gives his son Lopez a set of four strict instructions before sending him out into the world: do not associate with noblemen, do not use the title "Don", do not get into swordfights, and do not associate with the family of royal banker Moro. By the time Gaspar catches up with Lopez, he has broken all four commandments by associating with Don Roque Busqueros, who addresses him as "Don Lopez Soarez" and has fought a duel with him when Lopez interrupted his story about Frasquetta, and by seeking the hand of Moro's daughter Inez in marriage.
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo's close friend dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost. What Toledo hears later that night during a thunderstorm makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler:For awhile.]]
* DemonicPossession: Pacheko suffers from this, [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DemonicPossession: Pacheko suffers from this, [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo's close friend dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost. What Toledo hears later that night during a thunderstorm makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler:For awhile.a while.]]
* DemonicPossession:Pacheko Pacheco suffers from this, [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near theend..end.]]
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** Toledo [[spoiler: thinks he]] hears a voice from the afterlife warning him of the existence of purgatory. [[spoiler:It's actually Lopez Soarez, whom Don Roque guided to the wrong window in an attempt to win Inez Moro's hand.]]
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* MistakenIdentity: The Spanish Inquisition mistakes Velasquez for Alfonse.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lopez Soarez, who is new in town. He was given several pieces of good advice from his father, and [[spoiler: managed to screw up every one of them.]] His naivete leads him into the company of Busqueros and Inez.
* NestedStory: The movie in a nutshell.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lopez Soarez, who is new in town. He was given several pieces of good advice from his father, and [[spoiler: managed to screw up every one of them.]] His naivete leads him into the company of Busqueros and Inez.
* NestedStory: The movie in a nutshell.
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* MistakenIdentity: The Spanish Inquisition mistakes Velasquez for Alfonse.
Alfonse when Uzeda guides the latter along a different path through the mountains.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lopez Soarez, who is new in town. He was given several pieces of good advice from his father, and [[spoiler: managed to screw up every one ofthem.]] them]]. His naivete leads him into the company of Busqueros and Inez.
* NestedStory: The movie in a nutshell. First, there's Alfonse's grandson and an enemy soldier discovering and reading the Saragossa Manuscript, and we flash back to his adventures trying to get through the mountains to Madrid. Midway through the first half of the film, Alfonse listens to Pacheco tell the story of his attraction to his stepmother's sister Inezilla. In the second half, we get a veritable matryoshka doll of nested stories as Alfonse listens to Avadoro tell him a story in which he visits an injured Lopez Soarez, whose story includes a meeting with Don Roque Busquero in which the latter tells him the story of his paramour, Donna Frasquetta Solero, who tells Don Roque the story of how she put the literal fear of God into her husband. The fact that at one point, we are seeing Alfonse listen to Avadoro tell a story about Lopez Soarez telling a story about Don Roque telling a story about Frasquetta telling a story is {{lampshade|hanging}}d by the other listeners; Velasquez likens it to dividing numbers into ever smaller quotients.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lopez Soarez, who is new in town. He was given several pieces of good advice from his father, and [[spoiler: managed to screw up every one of
* NestedStory: The movie in a nutshell. First, there's Alfonse's grandson and an enemy soldier discovering and reading the Saragossa Manuscript, and we flash back to his adventures trying to get through the mountains to Madrid. Midway through the first half of the film, Alfonse listens to Pacheco tell the story of his attraction to his stepmother's sister Inezilla. In the second half, we get a veritable matryoshka doll of nested stories as Alfonse listens to Avadoro tell him a story in which he visits an injured Lopez Soarez, whose story includes a meeting with Don Roque Busquero in which the latter tells him the story of his paramour, Donna Frasquetta Solero, who tells Don Roque the story of how she put the literal fear of God into her husband. The fact that at one point, we are seeing Alfonse listen to Avadoro tell a story about Lopez Soarez telling a story about Don Roque telling a story about Frasquetta telling a story is {{lampshade|hanging}}d by the other listeners; Velasquez likens it to dividing numbers into ever smaller quotients.
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* RewatchBonus: The stories nested within Avadoro's tale in the second half of the film fit together in ways that become more apparent if you watch the film a second time (most obviously, you'll know ahead of time that Toledo's conversation with a "disembodied spirit" about purgatory is really with Lopez Soarez after the latter's botched attempt to serenade Inez Moro).
* RunningGag: Each time Lopez Soarez sits down to what he intends to be a solo dinner at the inn where he is staying, Don Roque shows up and begins helping himself to the contents of the platter in the centre of the table. By the third time, Lopez has given up trying to stop him.
* RunningGag: Each time Lopez Soarez sits down to what he intends to be a solo dinner at the inn where he is staying, Don Roque shows up and begins helping himself to the contents of the platter in the centre of the table. By the third time, Lopez has given up trying to stop him.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: Don Pedro Velasquez entertains deep philosophical questions at the table which Alfonse admits to be unable to follow.
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Alfonso van Worden, captain of the Spanish Walloon Guard, is attempting to reach Madrid over the mountains with his two servants. Warned of gypsies and ghosts, he resolves to proceed anyway. Along the way he is seduced, drugged, seduced again, drugged again, and told numerous stories, in which some of the characters begin telling stories of their own...
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!! ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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!! ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' contains This film provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: The army officer in the beginning starts an attack only to retreat immediately.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: The army officer in the beginning starts an attack only to retreat immediately.
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* TheChurch: The Spanish Inquisition plans to waylay Alfonso a couple of times. [[spoiler: The first time, they succeed, and he's only rescued from the torture chambers by the Zota brothers. The second time, they manage to get Velasquez by mistake.]]
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Toledo's friend who dies in a duel is shown with blood from his mouth when disclosed on the stretcher.
* TheChurch: The Spanish Inquisition plans to waylayAlfonso Alfonse a couple of times. [[spoiler: The first time, they succeed, and he's only rescued from the torture chambers by the Zota brothers. The second time, they manage to get Velasquez by mistake.]]]]
* ClosedCircle: Alfonse seem to go be caught in a in closed circles between the gallows and the inn. The Spanish Inquisition acts as a BorderPatrol, preventing him from getting on with his journey to Madrid.
* TheChurch: The Spanish Inquisition plans to waylay
* ClosedCircle: Alfonse seem to go be caught in a in closed circles between the gallows and the inn. The Spanish Inquisition acts as a BorderPatrol, preventing him from getting on with his journey to Madrid.
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* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler:Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler:Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler:implied [[spoiler:Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently.Alfonso's Alfonse's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler:Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso Alfonse confirms it.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently.
* HellHotel: The not so deserted Venta Quemada.
* InstantSedation: The sip Alfonse takes from the skull goblet renders him unconscious immediately.
* ItWasHereISwear: Alfonse finds the manuscript at the Cabalist's castle but it is gone to his dismay when he returns to the room.
* ItWasHereISwear: Alfonse finds the manuscript at the Cabalist's castle but it is gone to his dismay when he returns to the room.
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* KissingCousins: The Moorish princesses claim to be this to Alfonso.
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* KissingCousins: The Moorish princesses claim to be this to Alfonso.Alfonse.
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** The princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic. When called on this by Alfonso, they explain that they are Muslim.
** The ''very moment'' that Alfonso's father cries out that he'd sell his soul for water, a beautiful woman in dark dress appears and gives him some.
** The ''very moment'' that Alfonso's father cries out that he'd sell his soul for water, a beautiful woman in dark dress appears and gives him some.
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** The princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic. When called on this by Alfonso, Alfonse, they explain that they are Muslim.
** The ''very moment'' thatAlfonso's Alfonse's father cries out that he'd sell his soul for water, a beautiful woman in dark dress appears and gives him some.
** The ''very moment'' that
* MistakenIdentity: The Spanish Inquisition mistakes Velasquez for Alfonse.
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* PinballProtagonist: Alfonso. Then again, 90% of the movie is someone telling him a story.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler:pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: the hero embraces two sisters sitting on a bed; the camera remains fixed as the characters sink down out of the frame.
* StopHelpingMe: Lopez Soarez demands that Busqueros do this, to the extent of ''challenging him to a duel''.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler:pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: the hero embraces two sisters sitting on a bed; the camera remains fixed as the characters sink down out of the frame.
* StopHelpingMe: Lopez Soarez demands that Busqueros do this, to the extent of ''challenging him to a duel''.
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* PinballProtagonist: Alfonso.Alfonse. Then again, 90% of the movie is someone telling him a story.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler:pretty much everything that has happened toAlfonso, Alfonse, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso Alfonse describes everything, including the ending.]]
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: All stories told on-screen are depicted in images.
* SexyDiscretionShot:the The hero embraces two sisters sitting on a bed; the camera remains fixed as the characters sink down out of the frame.
*StopHelpingMe: Lopez Soarez demands that Busqueros do this, to TapOnTheHead: Alfonse gets knocked out when henchmen of the extent of ''challenging Spanish Inquisition hits him to in the head with a duel''.light wooden club.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler:pretty much everything that has happened to
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: All stories told on-screen are depicted in images.
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Polish director Wojciech Has, based on ''Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa'' by Jan Potocki, written in 1815.
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Polish director Wojciech Has, based on ''Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa'' ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' by Jan Potocki, written in 1815.
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo [[spoiler: believes that he has one]] with a close friend who dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost. What Toledo hears makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler: For awhile.]]
* DemonicPossession: Pachenko suffers from this, [[spoiler: until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler: implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* DemonicPossession: Pachenko suffers from this, [[spoiler: until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream: [[spoiler: implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo [[spoiler: believes that he has one]] with a Toledo's close friend who dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost. What Toledo hears later that night during a thunderstorm makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler: For [[spoiler:For awhile.]]
* DemonicPossession:Pachenko Pacheko suffers from this, [[spoiler: until [[spoiler:until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream:[[spoiler: implied [[spoiler:implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath: This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several.[[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller [[spoiler:Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: The caballero who encounters Toledo and Lopez refuses offers to become a servant, stating that he's a nobleman by birth and upbringing, a beggar by choice.
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* KarmaHoudini: Lopez Soarez's nobleman "friend" Busqueros, who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Lopez Soarez's nobleman "friend" Busqueros, who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly [[spoiler:effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* TheMatchmaker: Busqueros. Also, the Sheik, albeit in an extremely roundabout and contrived fashion.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A recurring theme in the stories. Uzeda, the cabalist, offers to prove the truth of incantations and demons to Velasquez, the princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic (but explain this as being Muslim), and Toledo [[spoiler: thinks he]] hears a voice from the afterlife warning him of the existence of purgatory.
* MerchantPrince: The senior Soarez's rival Moro, who became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A recurring theme in the stories. Uzeda, the cabalist, offers to prove the truth of incantations and demons to Velasquez, the princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic (but explain this as being Muslim), and Toledo [[spoiler: thinks he]] hears a voice from the afterlife warning him of the existence of purgatory.
* MerchantPrince: The senior Soarez's rival Moro, who became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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* TheMatchmaker: Busqueros. Also, the Sheik, albeit in an extremely roundabout and contrived fashion.
Sheik.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A recurring theme in thestories. stories.
** The princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic. When called on this by Alfonso, they explain that they are Muslim.
** The ''very moment'' that Alfonso's father cries out that he'd sell his soul for water, a beautiful woman in dark dress appears and gives him some.
** Uzeda, thecabalist, Kabbalist, offers to prove the truth of incantations and demons to Velasquez, the princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic (but explain this as being Muslim), and Velasquez.
** Toledo [[spoiler: thinks he]] hears a voice from the afterlife warning him of the existence of purgatory.
* MerchantPrince: The senior Soarez's rival Moro,who became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]royal banker.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A recurring theme in the
** The princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic. When called on this by Alfonso, they explain that they are Muslim.
** The ''very moment'' that Alfonso's father cries out that he'd sell his soul for water, a beautiful woman in dark dress appears and gives him some.
** Uzeda, the
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler: pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: The reason for [[spoiler: pretty [[spoiler:pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
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* TheChurch: The Spanish Inquisition plans to waylay Alfonso a couple of times. [[spoiler: The first time, they succeed, and he's only rescued from the torture chambers by the Zota brothers. The second time, they manage to get Velasquez by mistake.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend" Busqueros, who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Lopez Soarez's nobleman "friend" Busqueros, who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo [[spoiler: believes that he has one]] with a close friend who dueled his brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife. What he hears makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler: For awhile.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: The Zota brothers were hanged for being notorious bandits, but make an appearance in one of the stories. [[spoiler: Somebody hanged a couple of random guys to appease the locals that something was being done.]]
** "Do they, by chance, have the habit of coming down?" "Very often, usually at night."
* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo [[spoiler: believes that he has one]] with a close friend who dueledhis Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife. afterlife if he lost. What he Toledo hears makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler: For awhile.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A recurring theme in the stories. Uzeda, the cabalist, offers to prove the truth of incantations and demons to Velasquez, the princesses recoil in fear from a Christian relic (but explain this as being Muslim), and Toledo [[spoiler: thinks he]] hears a voice from the afterlife warning him of the existence of purgatory.
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Wojciech Has, based on ''Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa'' by Jan Potocki, written in 1815.
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* Kabbalah: one of the characters Alfonso meets introduces himself as a scholar of this. His castle is packed with books and he dresses the captain in a robe with mystic symbols on it.
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* The Matchmaker: Busqueros. [[The Sheik, albeit in an extremely roundabout and contrived fashion.]]
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* The Matchmaker: TheMatchmaker: Busqueros. [[The Also, the Sheik, albeit in an extremely roundabout and contrived fashion.]]
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* UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition: just another hazard on the mountainous road to Madrid.
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Wojciech Has, based on [[Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa The Manuscript Found In Saragossa]], ''Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa'' by Jan Potocki, written in 1815.
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* DuelToTheDeath: this being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* EnterStageWindow: used twice (on different windows), by Lopez and later Busqueros. The latter's entry is implied to happen in a house where the ladder may as well be a permanent fixture.
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: the caballero who encounters Toledo and Lopez refuses offers to become a servant, stating that he's a nobleman by birth and upbringing, a beggar by choice.
* EnterStageWindow: used twice (on different windows), by Lopez and later Busqueros. The latter's entry is implied to happen in a house where the ladder may as well be a permanent fixture.
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: the caballero who encounters Toledo and Lopez refuses offers to become a servant, stating that he's a nobleman by birth and upbringing, a beggar by choice.
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* DuelToTheDeath: this This being [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* MerchantPrince: the senior Soarez's rival Moro, who became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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* MerchantPrince: the The senior Soarez's rival Moro, who became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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* NestedStory: the movie in a nutshell.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: the reason for [[spoiler: pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: the reason for [[spoiler: pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
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* NestedStory: the The movie in a nutshell.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:the The reason for [[spoiler: pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
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* ThreeWaySex: not shown, but definitely stated to have happened to the captain.
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* MerchantPrince: the senior Soarez and his rival Moro, who come to an argument because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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* The Matchmaker: Busqueros. [[The Sheik, albeit in an extremely roundabout and contrived fashion.]]
* MerchantPrince: the seniorSoarez and his Soarez's rival Moro, who come to an argument became such because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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* UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition: just another hazard on the mountainous road to Madrid.
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* DuelToTheDeath: this being [[Dashing Hispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* DuelToTheDeath: this being [[Dashing Hispanic [[DashingHispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: the caballero who encounters Toledo and Lopez refuses offers to become a servant, stating that he's a nobleman by birth and upbringing, a beggar by choice.
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* MerchantPrince: the senior Soarez and his rival Moro, who come to an argument because Soarez wants to repay earned interest and Moro refused to take it. Soarez ''took the matter to court'', and forbade his son to involve himself with the house of Moro. [[spoiler: It didn't work, but the two men reconcile when their children are about to be wed.]]
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Wojciech Has, based on a novel written in 1815.
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Wojciech Has, based on a novel [[Literature/TheManuscriptFoundInSaragossa The Manuscript Found In Saragossa]], written in 1815.
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* DreamWithinADream: implied.
* DuelToTheDeath: frequent. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself, and its discovery.
* DuelToTheDeath: frequent. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself, and its discovery.
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* DemonicPossession: Pachenko suffers from this, [[spoiler: until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans]].
* DreamWithinADream:implied.
[[spoiler: implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonso, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end..]]
* DuelToTheDeath:frequent.this being [[Dashing Hispanic Spain]], happens or is mentioned frequently. Alfonso's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. [[spoiler: The old gypsy storyteller reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonso confirms it.]]
* EnterStageWindow: used twice (on different windows), by Lopez and later Busqueros. The latter's entry is implied to happen in a house where the ladder may as well be a permanent fixture.
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscriptitself, and its discovery.itself.
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* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend", who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend", "friend" Busqueros, who eats his food, steals his letters, ''stabs him in the arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for [[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* NaiveNewcomer: Lopez Soarez, who is new in town. He was given several pieces of good advice from his father, and [[spoiler: managed to screw up every one of them.]] His naivete leads him into the company of Busqueros and Inez.
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* StopHelpingMe: Lopez Soarez demands that Busqueros do this, to the extent of ''challenging him to a duel''.
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* DeadPersonConversation: Toledo [[spoiler: believes that he has one]] with a close friend who dueled his brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife. What he hears makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. [[spoiler: For awhile.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend", who eats his food, steals his letters, *stabs ''stabs him in the arm* arm'' and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for setting up a truly poetic outcome for Soarez.[[spoiler: effortlessly knocking down the elder Soarez' objections to his son marrying Inez]].
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* Kabbalah: one of the characters Alfonso meets introduces himself as a scholar of this. His castle is packed with books and he dresses the captain in a robe with mystic symbols on it.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: the reason for [[spoiler: pretty much everything that has happened to Alfonso, to see whether he's worthy of marrying the princesses. The Saragossa Manuscript held by the cabalist and noticed by Alfonso describes everything, including the ending.]]
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''The Saragossa Manuscript'' is a 1965 film by Wojciech Has, based on a novel written in 1815.
The movie begins with the discovery of the titular manuscript by an army officer, who (in the middle of a battle) begins thumbing through it to admire the artwork. An enemy officer arrives, tries to arrest him, and gets drawn in as well. As it so happens, the book talks about his ancestor.
Alfonso van Worden, captain of the Spanish Walloon Guard, is attempting to reach Madrid over the mountains with his two servants. Warned of gypsies and ghosts, he resolves to proceed anyway. Along the way he is seduced, drugged, seduced again, drugged again, and told numerous stories, in which some of the characters begin telling stories of their own...
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!! ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* DreamWithinADream: implied.
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself, and its discovery.
* InLoveWithLove: Lopez Soarez narrates that he is in love, but has no idea who or what is the object of his desire.
* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend", who eats his food, steals his letters, *stabs him in the arm* and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for setting up a truly poetic outcome for Soarez.
* NestedStory: the movie in a nutshell.
* ThreeWaySex: not shown, but definitely stated to have happened to the captain.
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The movie begins with the discovery of the titular manuscript by an army officer, who (in the middle of a battle) begins thumbing through it to admire the artwork. An enemy officer arrives, tries to arrest him, and gets drawn in as well. As it so happens, the book talks about his ancestor.
Alfonso van Worden, captain of the Spanish Walloon Guard, is attempting to reach Madrid over the mountains with his two servants. Warned of gypsies and ghosts, he resolves to proceed anyway. Along the way he is seduced, drugged, seduced again, drugged again, and told numerous stories, in which some of the characters begin telling stories of their own...
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!! ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* DreamWithinADream: implied.
* FramingDevice: the Saragossa Manuscript itself, and its discovery.
* InLoveWithLove: Lopez Soarez narrates that he is in love, but has no idea who or what is the object of his desire.
* KarmaHoudini: Soarez's nobleman "friend", who eats his food, steals his letters, *stabs him in the arm* and then remonstrates him for interrupting a good story, but who gets full marks for setting up a truly poetic outcome for Soarez.
* NestedStory: the movie in a nutshell.
* ThreeWaySex: not shown, but definitely stated to have happened to the captain.
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