Alejandro Amenábar is back with a biopic on Cervantes: trailer

The director of the others looks at the youth of the author of the adventures of Don Quixote.

We owe him in particular Open your eyes,, Mar ADENTRO and of course The others With Nicole Kidman. But Alejandro Amebar had disappeared from radars for six years and a historic drama entitled Letter to Franco (2019).

He is coming back to us this year with his 11th film, Cervantes before Don Quixote (El Cautivo Or The captive in VO). A feature film with the appearance of a biopic dedicated to the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

If his Don Quixote is one of the most famous literary works in the world, the writer has never truly highlighted in the cinema. It will be done this fall with Cervantes before Don Quixotewho traces the youth of Cervantes, then 28 -year -old sailor in the Spanish navy, discovering his taste for narration during his captivity as a prisoner of war. The film will make its world first at the start of the school year at the Toronto Festival.

While waiting for its French release on October 1, we already discover the trailer below.

The official synopsis announces: “1575 – Algiers. Miguel de Cervantes (Julio Peña), 28 -year -old soldier from the Spanish navy, injured, is retained prisoner by Ottoman corsairs. A certain death awaits him if his ransom is not quickly paid by his compatriots. But within the limits of his cell, Cervantes discovers an unexpected refuge: the art of telling stories. Forged by resilience and hope, his stories captivate his companions of captivity and attract the attention of Hasan (Alessandro Borghi), the Bey of Algiers, as feared as enigmatic, giving birth to a secret complicity between the jailer and his prisoner. While tensions increase in the city, Cervantes, carried by an unshakable optimism, develops an daring escape plan. »»

Written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, the film brings together the casting Julio Peña, Alessandro Borghi, Miguel Rellán, Fernando Tejero, Luis Callejo, José Manuel Poga, Roberto álamo, Albert Salazar, Juanma Muniagurria, César Sarachu and Jorge Asín.