For Whom Does Sancho Scream: G. W. Pabst, Attractional Cinema, and the Don Quixote Windmill Adventure.

This article analyzes G. W. Pabst's 1933 French-language film *Don Quichotte*, focusing on its innovative cinematic adaptation of the iconic windmill adventure from Cervantes's *Don Quixote*. Pabst's film transforms the episode into a central, attractional spectacle characterized by rapid editing, diverse camera angles, and a pivotal close-up of Sancho Panza's scream, which serves both as an emotional climax and a call for spectator contemplation. Departing from narrative fidelity, Pabst emphasizes exhibitionism and sensory engagement, positioning the windmill as a symbol of oppressive modern technology and social injustice, with Don Quixote's charge interpreted as a tragic, quixotic resistance. The film's use of sound, montage, and visual motifs aligns it with early cinema's "cinema of attractions," while also prefiguring later cinematic techniques that evoke affective responses to trauma and oppression.