23/02/2006

Following the fourth centennial of the first edition of "Don Quixote" – celebrated in 2005 – the upcoming Cannes Film Festival will extend the tribute to Cervantes with Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria (see the making of), which will screen in the Director's Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs).

Challenging the parallels between fiction and reality, Albert Serra freely adapts Cervantes' legendary book, showing the film’s cast and crew taking a cinematic and biographical journey similar to that of the book's main characters, played here by Lluís Carbó (Quixote) and Lluís Serrat (Sancho).

"They are both non-professional actors, unknown people, like in the films by Bresson, Ermanno Olmi, and like most of Pasolini's actors", explained the director. "Those three filmmakers, together with Godard and Ozu, were the source of inspiration that nourished the project and to whom we explicitly pay tribute in several different parts of the story".

Shot entirely on location, mainly in the province of Gerona, Honor de Cavalleria was produced by Andergraun films, Eddie Saeta and Notro Films, with a €360,000 budget, which makes it, in the director's words, "the first film about Quixote made by quixotic people".