Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.

7.5

94 min

Cast

Horst Buchholz

as Miguel de Cervantes

Gina Lollobrigida

as Giulia

José Ferrer

as Hassan Bey

Louis Jourdan

as Cardinal Acquaviva

Francisco Rabal

as Rodrigo Cervantes

Antonio Casas

as Favio

Soledad Miranda

as Nessa

Ángel del Pozo

as Don Juan de Austria

Ricardo Palacios

as Sancho

Maurice de Canonge

Tiziano Cortini

José Jaspe

as Turkish Official

Claudine Dalmas

José Nieto

as Minister of Felipe II

Andrés Mejuto

as Cervantes' Father

André Spengler

George Rigaud

as Count di Luca

José Marco

Antoine Fontaine

Mario Morales

Fernando Hilbeck

as Carlos

Amalia Velázquez

Fernando Rey

as Filipe II

Antonio Almorós

as (uncredited)

Ángel Aranda

as (uncredited)

Fernando Bilbao

as (uncredited)

José Canalejas

as (uncredited)

Gian Castelli

as (uncredited)

Juan Cazalilla

as Priest (uncredited)

Eric Chapman

as (uncredited)

Ricardo Costa

as (uncredited)

Enzo Curcio

as (uncredited)

Gaudenzio Di Pietro

as (uncredited)

Adriano Domínguez

as (uncredited)

Amparo Díaz

as (uncredited)

Moisés Fernández

as (uncredited)

Luis Gaspar

as (uncredited)

José González Talavera

as (uncredited)

Juan Antonio López

as (uncredited)

Antonio Olaguível

as (uncredited)

Pepita Otero

as (uncredited)

Jaime Pelta

as (uncredited)

Juan Antonio Peral

as (uncredited)

José Ignacio Pidal

as (uncredited)

Héctor Quiroga

as (uncredited)

Fernando Rovert

as (uncredited)

Rita Sanso

as (uncredited)

Adolfo Thous

as (uncredited)

Fernando Villena

as (uncredited)

Mariano Vidal Molina

as Diego de Urbina (uncredited)

Director

Vincent Sherman