Alicja in horror land

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Movie
German title Alicja in horror land
Original title Alicja
Country of production Poland , United Kingdom , Belgium , United States
original language Polish ,
English
Publishing year 1982
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Jacek Bromski ,
Jerzy Gruza
script Joseph R. Juliano ,
Jacek Bromski
production Baudouin Mussche
music Henri Seroka
camera Witold Sobociński , Alec Mills
cut Bill Blunden
occupation

Alicja in Horrorland (original title: Alicja ) is a Polish-British-Belgian-US-American musical - literary film adaptation from 1982, which plays very freely with the motifs of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , but has little in common with the original story. The direction was by Jacek Bromski and Jerzy Gruza . Alicja, played by the French actress Sophie Barjac , passes out in a park and wakes up in a strange mythical world where she meets bizarre creatures.

The main roles are occupied by Jean-Pierre Cassel in the role of the rabbit, the white rabbit, Susannah York in the role of Queenie, the queen of hearts, and with Paul Nicholas in the role of the Cheshire Cat .

action

Alicja, a young factory worker, is sitting on a bench in the park when she notices a man jogging. She watches a masked man get out of a car and point a gun at the jogger. A shot is fired and Alicja goes down as if she had been hit. When she opens her eyes again, she sees the jogger leaning over her and asking if everything is okay.

Alicja later meets the same man again in the factory where she works. His behavior is unusual. She meets him again in the factory cafeteria and they both start talking. He introduces himself to her as a rabbit. Alicja finds him and his behavior strange and doesn't think much of him at first, but then finds out that he is actually a nice guy. After further meetings, Alicja even falls in love with Rabbit.

He takes her to a party given by a rich, bossy woman named Queenie. The guests present all do not meet the usual standards and behave in an unusual way. The following time with Rabbit turned out to be very nice and varied for Alicja, infected by the nonconformity of her boyfriend.

But then Alicja has to learn from Rabbit just around Christmas time that Queenie intends to have him killed. He is just about to pack his bags and explains to Alicja that he has to leave the country forever. When she asked what would happen to them both, he replied that they could no longer live their love, although Alicja made it clear to him how much she loved him. Rabbit replies that it would be better for her to break away from him too. With tears in her eyes, Alicja turns to go and says: "We will meet again in our dreams."

After no one answers her calls to Rabbit anymore, Alicja feels deep despair. She only sees one way out and kills herself. Immediately afterwards she wakes up in a world full of fantasy figures who are happy and dance and sing. There she meets Rabbit again, but he keeps moving away from her. However, the mood suddenly changed when shots were fired. Alicja is held by two figures and led to a pedestal where you want to behead her. At the last second a helicopter approaches and she clings to the rope ladder. When Alicja comes to, she appears to be in a psychiatric clinic. And a short time later, the beginning of her meeting with Rabbit repeats itself including the shot, which hits him this time but at the same time also makes Alicja sink to the ground as if hit. And then Alicja sits on the bench again and looks after the jogger. Was it all just a dream, did her fantasy play a trick on Alicja, what does reality look like, what actually happened?

production

Production notes

Producing companies were Cibelco, the General Film Company, Hendale Leisure Corporation, Poltel (CWPiFTV) and South Street Films. The shooting began in January 1980 in Jagiellonska and Stettin in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . British actor Jack Wild became seriously ill with acute pancreatitis while filming in Poland.

Soundtrack

The film features are based on a film musical by Henri Seroka and poetry by Gyllianna . David Toguri was responsible for the musical numbers, the music arrangement and direction were in the hands of Charles Blackwell. Sophie Barjac's vocals were taken from the Scottish singer Lulu . It danced the ballet of the Warsaw Opera House and the ballet of the Polish TV.

  • I'm just a Face in your Mirror , sung by Lulu for Sophie Barjac and Gunter Gabriel
  • Love is the Answer , sung by Lulu
  • Small talk sung by Susannah York, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Lulu for Sophie Barjac
  • Hello, my friends , sung by Lulu for Sophie Barjac

reception

publication

The film was released in Polish cinemas on March 29, 1982. The German first broadcast was on October 26, 1999 on RTL II . The film was also released in the Soviet Union, there under the title Алиса .

criticism

In The Last exit was talk of a comic-romantic musical comedy replacements an insane criminal aspect. Forcing a surreal story into a conventional romantic film could only be wrong, it was found. Apparently, the Polish filmmakers would have taken pills that contributed to such a pointless endeavor. The story of Alice falling in love with an eccentric jogger named Rabbit, who is being pursued by criminal elements, and Queenie, a rich woman who terrorizes everyone around her, is as strange as the entire story. The scenes in a factory, where there was a lot of dancing and singing, also looked more like a nutcase.

Cinema, on the other hand, spoke of an "original version of the classic Alice in Wonderland".

For the Filmdienst portal, this film adaptation, which takes place in a “bizarre world”, “in which the laws of logic seem to no longer apply” and “strange characters” led Alicja through “confusing adventures”, was a “ very free musical adaptation of the children's book classic ' Alice in Wonderland ' by Lewis Carroll ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alicja in Horrorland. TV feature film , accessed on September 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Alicja in the Horrorland film scene with the song I'm just a Face in your Mirror
  3. ↑ Alicja in the Horrorland film scene with the song Love is the Answer
  4. ↑ Alicja in the Horrorland film scene with the song Small Talk
  5. ↑ Alicja in the Horrorland film scene with the song Hello, my Friends
  6. ↑ Alicja (1982) - Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Alicja in Horrorland. film service , accessed September 22, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Alice sS thelastexit.net (English). Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  9. ↑ Alicja in Horrorland sS cinema.de (incl. Polish film poster). Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ Alicja in Horrorland see filmdienst.de. Retrieved August 19, 2018.