Considered Poland's greatest cult film, The Saragossa Manuscript ostensibly follows the peculiar wanderings of a Belgian army officer through Moorish lands during the Napoleonic Wars. Here bizarre tales spawn even stranger ones, structured by dreams and fantasies; everyone has a story here, each more unhinged than the last. (No wonder it was a favorite of both Luis Buñuel and Jerry Garcia.) Alice in Wonderland by way of Napoleon, a critique of the very possibilities of storytelling, it is also “a shrewd and sharp denunciation of human stupidity and superstition, ridiculing human weaknesses that are all a part of our modern world” (Albert Johnson). The film also stands as a who's-who of Polish postwar culture: the legendary Zbigniew Cybulski stars, while famed composer Krzysztof Penderecki provides the score. “It is impossible to recall any other film in the history of international cinema,” noted Johnson, “that can be compared with The Saragossa Manuscript.”