Black Quixote

Movie in Spanish with English subtitles. Registration required. Synopsis Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, two characters of universal literature, are metaphorically contextualized in the Ecuadorian setting. This new Sancho Panza is an Andean man who used to work as a slaughterer in a small town of the Andean region near the capital of Ecuador, Quito. Sancho kidnaps the Queen of Spain and her daughter, the Princess of Spain, during their visit to the country. The man takes the women to a lonesome beach and struggles to win their love. From the sky, a black Don Quixote arrives at the beach hanging by a bouquet of colorful balloons; he meets the women and falls in love with them as well. Before travelling around the world in search of an illusion, he had been a beggar in the streets of Esmeraldas. So, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza compete for the Queen and Princess in a playful but, at the same time, horrid way. Possession of their love would mean access to a sphere that, so far, had been unattainable to them due to their ethnic and social conditions. A dwarf, accomplice to their actions, decides to ask the King of Spain for a ransom for the two women, but he insists that the ransom should consist of the refund of 185thousand kilos of gold and 16 million kilos of silver that the Spanish people took from American territories during the conquest, a historic event that is registered in the General Archive of the Indies. In addition to that, he asks the King to pay the interest for the past 500 years claiming that he is acting in a reciprocal way towards the attitude of the European community, since they charged us 30% or 40% interest every time they lend us money. The situation becomes a big scandal in the international community.