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This page lists adaptations and derivative works based on the seminal 17th century Spanish novel Don Quixote, about a Spanish nobleman living under the delusion that he's a medieval Knight in Shining Armor.
Original work
- The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), often simply shortened to Don Quixote, written between 1605 and 1615 by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.
Adaptations and derivative works
Anime and Manga- Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (1980)
Comic Books
- Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1972-83, Spanish, ten volumes. English translation by Wise Path Books in progress (digital version here
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Film — Animation
- Donkey Xote, 2007 Spanish CGI animated film, notable for starring a donkey that looks far too similar to the one from Shrek, and as a result being repackaged as "Donkey X" at least once to raise the confusion.
- Las aventuras de Don Quijote (The Adventures of Don Quixote), 2010 Spanish CGI film.
- Giants of la Mancha, 2024 Spanish CGI film. A descendant of Don Quixote goes on a mission to save La Mancha from a storm.
Film — Live-Action
- Don Quixote, 1933 German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
- Don Quixote, 1957 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
- Don Quixote (1957-1969), unfinished film by Orson Welles.
- Man of La Mancha, 1972 adaptation of the musical by Arthur Hiller.
- Don Quixote, Knight Errant, 2002 Spanish film.
- Don Quixote, 2010 Chinese/Hong Kong film directed by Ah Gan.
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018 co-production film directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce. Not an adaptation of the story, but uses very similar delusion themes in a 21st century setting, with a character thinking he is Don Quixote.
- Lost in La Mancha, 2002 documentary. Chronicles the infamously plagued attempt at filming the above work back in 2000.
- He Dreams of Giants, 2019 documentary. Sequel to Lost in La Mancha, about how Gilliam finally managed to make the film.
- Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ("Second volume of the ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), better known as "Avellaneda's Quixote", is a 1614 unauthorized sequel written by "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda", a pen name of unknown identity believed to have been a personal enemy of Cervantes, as he insults him in the book. Cervantes was so incensed with this book's existence that he wrote the official Part II to prevent it from becoming popular - and succeeded, to the point people only know of it today because it is disparaged in Cervantes's book.
- Moxia Zhuan ("The story of the Enchanted Knight"), the first version of Don Quixote published in China, is a 1922 remake of Part I by Lin Shu, who didn't speak Spanish or any western language, but transcribed the story as it was narrated to him by a friend reading from an English 18th century translation. The story is slightly different due to a mix of translation errors, broken telephone, Cultural Translation, and Author Appeal: Don Quixote is a more dignified character because he keeps true to older traditions and rejects the absurdities of modernity; Sancho is his disciple instead of his servant; and all references to Christianity are excised, so the curate is a doctor. It went out of print in 1934 until it was rediscovered by the Cervantes Institute and published in Mandarin and Spanish in 2021.
- Monsignor Quixote (1982) by Graham Greene (Author) is a pastiche that follows a priest who thinks he is a direct descendant of Don Quixote despite everyone else pointing that Don Quixote is fictional, as he rides an old Seat 600 through post-Franco Spain while in the company of a former Communist mayor (nicknamed Sancho, of course). Had a TV film adaptation starring Alec Guinness in 1985.
- Quichotte, a 2019 novel by Salman Rushdie that reimagines Don Quixote as an elderly Indian-American salesman who becomes infatuated with a Talk Show host and decides to reach her while accompanied by his imaginary son Sancho.
Live-Action Television
- Don Quijote von der Mancha, a 1965 German miniseries.
- Don Quixote, a 2000 Hallmark television movie starring John Lithgow and Bob Hoskins.
Music
- "Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character," a 1898 symphonic poem by Richard Strauss.
Theatre
- Don Quixote: A three-act ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa, first shown in 1869.
- Don Quichotte, a 1910 opera by Jules Massenet.
- Man of La Mancha, a musical created in 1964 about a fictionalized making of Don Quixote, which is treated as the Show Within a Show.
- Life of the Great Don Quixote and the Fat Sancho Panza, a 2019 stage play by António José da Silva.
- Quixote Nuevo, a 2020 stage play adapting the story onto modern problems in the Texas/Mexican border. In this version, "Joe" is explicitly suffering from late stage dementia, and El Muerte is a prominent character throughout.
Western Animation
- Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1979-1980 Spanish series directed by Cruz Delgado and José Romagosa. Remarkably Truer to the Text than most adaptations.
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, 1990-1991 Hanna-Barbera animated series.
- A different Don Coyote turns up in a Danger Mouse episode around the same season. This version enlists Penfold as his Sancho Panza as they tilt at a windmill where Baron Greenback is holed up.
- Limbus Company, a 2023 gacha game featuring a genderbent version of Don Quixote as one of the main characters, adapted to fit the setting of the game itself.
- Super Don Quixote (1984)
