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Alejandro Amenábar: “if I Had Parked the Theme of Homoerotism Between Cervantes and His Captor I Would Have Been Prude and Renounced Myself”

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How did Miguel de Cervantes survive between 1575 and 1580, when he was imprisoned in Algiers? What trace did they leave on an aspiring 28-year-old writer, who tried unsuccessfully to escape on four occasions and who, contrary to the usual, was he not executed? Was El Quijote already in his head? Faced with those questions Alejandro Amenábar (Santiago de Chile, 53) has built The captive, who opens in halls next Friday and opens the conversation t…

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Alejandro Amenábar returns. And he does it as usual in his filmography with a history of, from and about freedom. From the others to As long as the war lasts through Agora,...

·Madrid, Spain
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How did Miguel de Cervantes survive between 1575 and 1580, when he was imprisoned in Algiers? What trace did they leave on an aspiring 28-year-old writer, who tried unsuccessfully to escape on four occasions and who, contrary to the usual, was he not executed? Was El Quijote already in his head? Faced with those questions Alejandro Amenábar (Santiago de Chile, 53) has built The captive, who opens in halls next Friday and opens the conversation t…

·Spain
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To meet Cervantes in 1575, Alejandro Amenábar needed a "serious crisis", that of who after filming 'Regression' (2015) with Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson was left without funding for what should be his next film, 'As long as the war lasts.' On the advice of his producer, he began to read about Cervantes. He wanted to escape and he gave a story of imprisonment, that which the author of Quixote suffered for five years in a prison of the dreaded bach…

·Spain
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On Friday, September 12, 'The captive' premieres, Amenábar's latest work with a strong Jerez seal Juan Miguel del Castillo, CSRTV Award: "Many people have helped me get here"

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abc broke the news in Spain on Sunday, September 7, 2025.
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