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.
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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 as
Tiziano Cortini as
José Jaspe as Turkish Official
Claudine Dalmas as
José Nieto as Minister of Felipe II
Andrés Mejuto as Cervantes' Father
André Spengler as
George Rigaud as Count di Luca
José Marco as
Antoine Fontaine as
Mario Morales as
Fernando Hilbeck as Carlos
Amalia Velázquez as
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)
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