Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ali Baba and the 40 thieves |
| Original title | Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 176 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pierre Aknine |
| script |
Michael Delgado Claude-Michel Rome |
| production |
Jean-Pierre Guérin Véronique Marchat |
| music | Christophe Lapinta |
| camera |
Daniel Sauvé Allen Smith |
| cut | Thierry Rouden |
| occupation | |
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Ali Baba and the 40 robbers (original title: Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs ) is a French fairy tale film from 2007. The two-part television film was directed by director Pierre Aknine .
action
In the year 800, emissaries of the Caliph of Baghdad set out on a trip to Charlemagne to offer him a peace treaty. They stop at the magician Al Miradjan and his beautiful daughter Morgiane. But they are killed there by the 40 robbers led by Malik. The magician is also killed in the attack. Only the monk Séraphin is spared, as he is mistaken for a woman because of his long hair. Together with Morgiane and other women, he is supposed to be taken to the slave market in Baghdad, but he is able to escape in the desert.
Shortly before, the logger Ali Baba was attacked by the robbers and left without water to die in the desert. But the ghost of the murdered wizard saves his life in the form of an eagle. At home, Ali tells his brother, the greedy carpet dealer Cassim, and his dissatisfied wife Ouria, who is beautiful and much younger than her husband, as well as his own wife Yasmina and his son Sliman about his experience in the desert, but he is not taken seriously. To save his family from financial ruin, he wants to marry his son for 1000 dinars to the plump and simple-minded Fouzia, the daughter of the rich pharmacist Youssef.
When Ali tries to warn the vizier Ya-Ya about the band of robbers, he learns that the latter is planning a conspiracy against the caliph and is counting on the robber chief Malik. The vizier plans to present the three heads of the murdered emissaries to the caliph. He wants to provoke a war in this way, according to his plan the army should go into battle so that he and his people can seize power in Baghdad. Meanwhile, while collecting wood, Ali observes how Malik and his robbers use the formula “Open sesame seeds!” To gain access to a cave in a rock in the desert. When they are gone, he discovers rich treasures in the cave, but he only takes a cross, an oil lamp, a carpet and a ring with him. After telling his brother Cassim, who has meanwhile bought Morgiane, the sorcerer's daughter, about it at the slave market, the latter sets off for the cave with many pack donkeys. But there the 40 robbers surprise him. One of them rams a knife in his stomach, Cassim dies. Malik is angry that one of his men stabbed him because he would have liked to know how Cassim knew the sesame formula.
Ali's son Sliman falls in love with the beautiful Morgiane and rejects a wedding with the voracious Fouzia. Meanwhile, the vizier's conspirators, together with Malik's gang, are looking for the fugitive monk Séraphin, who was an eyewitness to the murder of the caliph's envoy. Malik also learned from his mother, a sorceress, that Ali also knew the secret of the cave. Disguised as a merchant, Malik asks for shelter with Ali; the robbers are hidden in large oil jugs and carried into the courtyard of Ali's house. But Morgiane recognizes Malik as her father's murderer and discovers that the robbers are hidden in the oil jugs. She throws scorpions into the pitchers. But Malik can escape.
By chance, Morgiane meets the starved and ragged monk Séraphim in the streets of Baghdad, who was also a witness to her father's murder. She takes him to Ali's house, who has meanwhile also agreed to take Ouria, his brother's beautiful widow, to his second wife out of a sense of duty. But with this he incurs the anger of his wife Yasmina, and Ouria declines with thanks. She turns to Séraphim and nurses him back to health. Ali wants to have Séraphim smuggled through the harem rooms to the caliph so that he can report on the murder of the ambassadors and the conspiracy of the vizier. But both are captured. Now it turns out that the oil lamp that Ali took from the robbers' den is a magic lamp, thanks to the help of the lamp's spirit they can break free. Meanwhile, Morgiane is kidnapped and a magic formula from Malik's mother is supposed to make her kill the caliph. The project fails, however, Morgiane is able to advance with Ali and Séraphin to the caliph and tell him about the conspiracy. In gratitude, he appoints Ali as vizier. Morgiane later stabs Malik, her father's murderer, to death when he visits Ali in the form of an old man. Ali's son Sliman is now marrying his beloved Morgiane, and Ouria, the beautiful widow of the gieirgen Cassim, finds her happiness, because Séraphin forgets his vow of chastity and gives up his monk.
criticism
“Opulently equipped, solidly played oriental adventure, which is largely based on the fairytale. The political component of an attempted peace agreement between Caliph Rahid and Charlemagne is fictitious and only serves as a credible foundation. "
"Opulent film adaptation of the well-known oriental fairy tale, made in locations in Morocco."
Web links
- Ali Baba and the 40 thieves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ali Baba and the 40 thieves in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ali Baba and the 40 robbers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ video.de: Ali Baba and the 40 robbers ( Memento from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )