Saragossa Manuscript 4K UHD + Blu-ray
'The Saragossa Manuscript' Director: Wojciech Has (1965) Radiance Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray | Polish w/ English subtitles
At the height of the Napoleonic wars, a soldier seeks refuge in a deserted house in the Spanish town of Saragossa, and discovers a mysterious manuscript written in a language he doesn’t speak. When enemy Spanish officers arrive to arrest him, one of the soldiers realises that the book appears to tell the story of his grandfather and his surreal, mystical adventures in the region several decades before. He starts to translate the text for the soldier, and so begins a time-shifting, genre-hopping, ouroboros-like epic narrative, one that blends the gothic, quixotic and erotic, and in the process interrogates the very nature of storytelling itself.
Championed by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, The Saragossa Manuscript has grown in status since its initial release from a cult oddity to a film widely regarded as one of greatest ever produced in Poland, and a work that cemented Wojciech Has as one of European cinema’s most visionary and idiosyncratic directors. Starring Zbigniew Cybulski (Ashes and Diamonds).
Limited Edition contents:
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
- Booklet featuring new writing by author David Hering and archival writing by Annette Insdorf
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Special features include:
- Visual essay on the cinema of Wojciech Has and The Saragossa Manuscript by Polish film expert Michael Brooke (2026, 69 mins)
- Saragossa - archival making-of documentary made for Polish television on The Saragossa Manuscript, featuring Wojciech Has, cinematographer Mieczyslaw Jahoda, production designer Jerzy Skarżyński, and assistant director Barbara Sass-Zdort (1998, 29 mins)
