When dinosaurs ruled the earth
| Movie | |
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| German title | When dinosaurs ruled the earth |
| Original title | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Val Guest |
| script | Val Guest |
| production | Aida Young |
| music | Mario Nascimbene |
| camera | Dick Bush |
| cut | Peter Curran |
| occupation | |
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Original title: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth ) is a British adventure film directed by Val Guest from 1970. Premiere had the film on 25 October 1970. In Germany, he was released on New Year's 1,971th
action
The tribe of the Rock Men live in a primeval world under the leadership of Kingsor. The rock people worship the sun and sacrifice people to it. When three women are about to be sacrificed this time, one of the three has a panic attack and falls into the sea. A piece of the sun comes off and forms a moon. When a storm comes up, Sanna, one of the other two women who was about to be sacrificed, flees.
People from another tribe, the Sand People, find Sanna and take her in. Tara, who is actually with Ayak, falls in love with the new tribe member. The Sand People captured a plesiosaur . However, the animal can tear itself away and begins to devastate the village. Finally, the tribe succeeds in killing the dinosaur with burning oil. When Tara is on the road the next day, Ayak threatens Sanna. At the same time, Kingsor appears to bring Sanna back and perform the offering ceremony. Sanna escapes, Kingsor and his men take up the chase. You meet a Chasmosaurus who attacks the troop immediately. Only one man survives the fight. When Tara appears with some of his people, the dinosaur attacks again. But in this fight the lizard falls into a ravine. The seriously injured survivor is taken to the village of the Sand People. Here people are concerned about the newly formed moon.
Tara sets out to find Sanna. He finds a strand of blonde hair on a carnivorous plant and suspects that Sanna is dead. However, because it took shelter in a giant egg shell, it was adopted by a dinosaur as a child. Tara brings the now recovered rock man back to his village. On the way back he is attacked by a pterosaur, but can kill it. Then he meets Sanna, who is out with her dinosaur mother. Kingsor's men found Sanna too. Sanna stays with the dinosaur while Tara returns to his village. But there he is sentenced to death and put on a burning raft. The raft is attacked by a marine dinosaur. Tara escapes and rushes back to Sanna.
Again a search party finds the couple. The dinosaur protects Sanna, but Tara is captured. This time the tidal forces of the new moon help him. Giant crabs emerge from the resulting ebb. The returning tide creates chaos in which Tara and Sanna meet again. Ayak dies in the quicksand and Kingsor does not survive the flood either. Tara, Sanna and a few other survivors are able to save themselves on a raft and are stranded on a mountain.
Reviews
- The lexicon of international films describes the film as “insignificant in terms of content, but technically ingeniously prepared fantasy cinema, with anachronisms and modernist embellishments; the main actress is dressed like a beauty queen of our day. "
- The Variety calls it "simple science-fiction movie, does the hurt anybody."
- The conclusion of the magazine Cinema : "Super high-pitched sounds from the legendary British hammer studios."
Awards
Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken's special effects were nominated for an Oscar in 1972 .
background
The film was shot on the Spanish Canary Island of Fuerteventura .
According to the Hollywood Reporter , the film dialogue was built on a vocabulary of 27 terms. Words from the Latin and Phoenician languages as well as from Sanskrit served as the basis for this .
Web links
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ When dinosaurs ruled the earth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2019 .
- ↑ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. In: Variety . Archived from the original on September 15, 2012 ; accessed on May 1, 2019 (English).
- ↑ When dinosaurs ruled the earth. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on May 1, 2019 .
- ^ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971) Notes. Turner Classic Movies , accessed May 1, 2019 .