Don Quixote in the Soviet Cinema: Kozintsev and Kurchevski
Abstract
Don Quixote has been the foreign myth that has had most influence over Russian literature and culture. The Buketoff-Turkevich, Bagno or Monforte‟s studies have focused on the influence over Russian and Soviet literature, but no approaches have been offered by film studies. This article studies how the quixotic archetype has developed in Soviet cinema. The study makes use of two representative films: Don Quixote/Don Kijot/ (Kozinstev, 1957) and Liberated don Quixote/Osvobozdennyj Don Kijot (Kurchevski, 1987). The aim of this article is to probe, through film analysis, how the figure of Don Quixote changes in soviet archetypal imagery and these representations become new stages in vision the soviet identification with this myth.Downloads
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