---
title: 'Don Quixote (1947)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Rafael Gil'
released: '1947-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 137
countries:
  - 'Spain'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/don-quixote-1947'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039330/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Don Quixote (1947)

1947 · 137 min · Spain

Original title: Don Quijote de la Mancha

## Synopsis

Don Quixote or Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947. A huge undertaking for Spanish cinema in its day, it was the longest film version of the novel up to that time, and very likely the most faithful, reverently following the book in its dialogue and order of episodes, unlike G.W. Pabst's 1933 version and the later Russian film version, which scrambled up the order of the adventures as many film versions do. Characters such as Cardenio, Dorotea, and Don Fernando, which are usually omitted because their respective subplots have little to do with the main body of the novel, were kept in this film.

## Credits

- **Director of Photography:** [Alfredo Fraile](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfredo-fraile)
- **Director:** [Rafael Gil](https://cinepixo.com/people/rafael-gil)
- **Screenplay:** [Rafael Gil](https://cinepixo.com/people/rafael-gil)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernesto Halffter](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernesto-halffter)

## Cast

- [Francisco Rabal](https://cinepixo.com/people/francisco-rabal)
- [Guillermo Marín](https://cinepixo.com/people/guillermo-marin)
- [Nani Fernández](https://cinepixo.com/people/nani-fernandez)
- [Rafael Durán](https://cinepixo.com/people/rafael-duran)
- [Antonio García-Riquelme Salvador](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-garcia-riquelme-salvador)
- [Alfredo Fraile](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfredo-fraile)
- [Milagros Leal](https://cinepixo.com/people/milagros-leal)
- [Julia Lajos](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-lajos)
- [Juan Espantaleón](https://cinepixo.com/people/juan-espantaleon)
- [Julia Caba Alba](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-caba-alba)
- [Rafael Rivelles](https://cinepixo.com/people/rafael-rivelles)
- [María Asquerino](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-asquerino)
- [José María Seoane](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-maria-seoane)
- [Eduardo Fajardo](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-fajardo)
- [José Prada](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-prada)

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