![]() ![]() ![]() The exteriors were shot in a house in the main square opposite the church. The house where Monseñor Quixote lives was actually two different houses during filming. The story is updated and is set in the village of El Toboso, Toledo, with Quixote a non-conformist priest at loggerheads with his Bishop, and Sancho (Leo McKern), a Communist who has just been voted out of his job as Mayor in the early years of post-Franco Spain.įilming took place in the real El Toboso, a village with an impressive museum dedicated to the Spanish bard.Įarly on we see the Mayor leaving the Town Hall mumbling about betrayal, and the building he steps out of is in fact El Toboso’s Town Hall today. Monsignor Quixote is a novel by Graham Greene, based on ‘Don Quijote,’ made into a television film released in 1987, with a screenplay written in part by Greene and starring Alec Guinness as Father Quixote, a ‘genuine’ ancestor of the fictional character created by Cervantes. ![]() The TV film Monsignor Quixote was Alec Guinness’s last Spanish movie, and the only one in fact about Spain. ![]()
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