Oops- left out— Leo Mckern who plays the dedicated anti-Franco Communist loser of the last El Toboso mayoral election who travels as the “Sancho” to the Monsignor Quixote.
An emotional production— sharply written and played. The current day El Toboso has tourist guided locations of the tilm in the real provinces of La Mancha (Manchego no doubt a very fine Spanish sheep cheese).
In re La Mancha and cheese -
Manchego is a DOP, or protected trademark for a form of sheeps cheese. Like the French appellations. However very similar (identical really) is THE Spanish basic cheese, seen on darn near all tapas and etc., made anywhere but La Mancha. Think cheddar in Britain.