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Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (2006)
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Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (2006)
Original name: Honor de cavalleria
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them.
Style: realistic, experimental, semi serious, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, sexual, offbeat, sexy
Plot: don quixote, destructive relationship, gang, friendship, life is a bitch, prison life, tragic love, society, idealism, hopes, prison, escape, friends, love and romance, couples, starting over, lovers reunited, unfulfillment, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, honor
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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