Theatre of Cruelty in Terry Gilliam’s El Hombre que Mató a Don Quijote

Abstract

The paper is a comparative analysis of the episodes from the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam, 2018, which represent theatrical performances staged in the castle of Alexei Mishkin with the corresponding fragments of the novel by Cervantes talking about don Quixote’s and Sancho Panza’s adventures in the duke’s palace. The expressive idiom of the film is an example of co-penetration of the theatre and the cinema which is used for creating the quixotic myth in in the contemporary audiovisual arts.