Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (1980)

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Movie
German title Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
Original title Приключения Али-Бабы и сорока разбойников
(Prikljutschenija Ali-Baby i soroka rasboinikow) /
अलीबाबा और 40 चोर
(Alibaba Aur Chalis Chor)
Country of production Soviet Union , India
original language Russian , Hindi
Publishing year 1980
length 130 minutes
Rod
Director Latif Faisijew
Umesh Mehra
script Boris Saakow
Shanti Prakash Bakshi
production Uzbek film , Eagle Films
music Vladimir Milow
Rahul Dev Burman
camera Leonid Trawizki
Peter Pereira
occupation

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Original title: Russian Приключения Али-Бабы и сорока разбойников , Prikljutschenija Ali Baby i soroka rasboinikow , Hindi अलीबाबा और 40 चोर , Alibaba Aur Chalis Chor ) is a Soviet - Indian fairytale of Latif Faisijew and Umesh Mehra from 1980 based on the story of the same name from the Arabian Nights .

action

The dreaded robber chief Abu Hassan and his gang attack a caravan in which the beautiful Fatima and her father are traveling. He takes Fatima's father prisoner, as he intends to overthrow the Shah with his knowledge of the production of a fire-powerful black powder . With the power of the powder he received, he then blows up the dam , which provides the water supply for the city of Guljabad, in order to get a little closer to his goal through the dehydration of its inhabitants. The merchant Jussuf, the father of Ali Baba and Kassym, who is on his way home to Guljabad after twenty years of imprisonment, is injured and washed away again to India . There he is found by a Raja who takes care of him and sends a message to his family. Since Kassym has to run the business, the woodcutter Ali Baba sets out on a long journey to bring his long-lost father home. His mother gave him a ring for his father to recognize him.

Meanwhile, there is an overthrow in the city of the Indian ruler. Shamshir, the nephew of the Rajas, ascends the throne by killing his uncle and wants to take his daughter Mardshina as his wife. Yusuf helps the princess to escape from the palace, whereupon she meets Ali Baba, who also helps her escape. After that, Ali Baba goes to Shamshir to find out about his father. The new ruler only tells him that he is already dead. Ali Baba then discovers Mardshina in the streets of the city. He follows her to her hiding place, where he meets Yusuf, who has adopted Mardshina as his daughter, but father and son do not recognize each other. The next day, Ali Baba and Mardshina join a caravan traveling to Guljabad. Yusuf, who joins them later, notices the ring that Ali Baba is wearing on the way and recognizes him as his son. Suddenly the robbers appear who attack the tour company. In the chaos of the fighting, Mardshina is kidnapped by the caravan leader Mustafa, who wants to sell the beautiful woman to compensate for his losses on the Guljabad slave market. The seriously injured Yusuf is brought home by Ali Baba, where he dies shortly afterwards with his loved ones.

In order to be able to buy Mardshina from Mustafa, Ali Baba has his brother Kassym give him the one thousand dinars that he immediately needs . In return he has to forego his inheritance, which is worth the release of Mardshina to him. The two lovers move into a house together and Ali Baba immediately sets about keeping the promise he made to his dying father. Namely, rebuild the dam. While working in the wilderness, he spots the robbers. He overhears Abu Hassan speaking the words “Sesame, open yourself!” In front of a large rock, whereupon the stone splits and reveals the entrance to a cave. When the robbers are gone, he imitates the robber chief. He enters the cave where he discovers numerous treasures. He steals two sacks of gold from it, with which he has the dam rebuilt. When his greedy brother learns of the secret, he too goes to the cave. After entering it, however, he forgets the magic words with which he could open the closed stone again and so the imprisoned is found by the robbers.

After Kassym's death, Ali Baba reported to the supposed vizier of Guljabad, who previously had the little water sold at high prices, about the robbers' cave. He rides there with him, but does not know that he is actually traveling with Abu Hassan, who is married to the jinn of the well in the cave and is thus able to assume the shape of the vizier. Ali Baba is captured but can be freed from Mardshina. Abu Hassan then turns into the vizier again, orders his forty subordinates to hide in large jugs and goes to Ali Baba in the city to destroy the man who knows the secret of the cave and his family. Ali Baba and Fatima, who are staying in his house because she married Kassym after her father committed suicide, succeeds in figuring out the robbers' plan. They secretly throw the jugs in the river. But when they want to confront the robber chief, he escapes and takes Mardshina into the cave as his prey. Ali Baba rushes there at once. But he cannot open the cave entrance because Abu Hassan's wife, the jinn, knows how to prevent the magic words from working. So he takes the black powder with whose explosive power he forces the cleavage of the rock. In the following fight, Ali Baba is able to stab the robber chief, whereby the jinn, who is bound to her husband, also loses her life. Then the victorious Ali Baba returns to Guljabad, where he is happy with his liberated Mardshina.

background

Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers hit Soviet cinemas in May 1980. The Indian premiere took place on May 29, 1980. In the GDR , the film was shown for the first time as a two-parter on October 5 and 12, 1980 on television on DFF 2 . It was shown in GDR cinemas on August 7, 1981.

synchronization

The dialogue of the DEFA - Synchronization wrote Hannelore Grünberg , the director took Wolfgang Thal .

actor role German speaker
Dharmendra Ali Baba Rainer Büttner
Hema Malini Marjina Margrit Manz
Rolan Bykov Abu Hassan / Vizier of Guljabad Achim Petry
Sakir Muchamedzhanov Ali Baba's father Yusuf Detlev Witte
Sopiko Tschiaureli Ali Baba's mother Samira Irmelin Krause
Jakub Akhmedov Ali Baba's brother Kassym Victor Deiß
Zeenat Aman Fatima Roswitha Hirsch
Khodschadurdy Narlijew Chamid Frank Schenk
Frunsik Mkrtchjan Mustafa Walter Wickenhauser

criticism

For the lexicon of international film , Ali Baba und die 40 Räuber was a "colorful entertainment in an oriental garb, which becomes somewhat confusing and loses its sense of style due to content-related, socio-critical and formal extensions".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on December 19, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Ali Baba and the 40 robbers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 19, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Ali Baba and the 40 robbers. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 19, 2017 .