Angélique and the Sultan

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Movie
German title Angélique and the Sultan
Original title Angélique et le sultan
Country of production France , Italy , Germany
original language French
Publishing year 1968
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bernard Borderie
script Bernard Borderie
Pascal Jardin
Francis Cosne
production Francis Cosne
François Chavane
music Michel Magne
camera Henri Persin
cut Christian Gaudin
occupation

Angélique and the Sultan (original title: Angélique et le sultan ) is a feature film by director Bernard Borderie from 1968. The Franco-German-Italian co-production is the last part of the film series based on the novel Angélique by Anne Golon .

action

After Jeoffrey saved his ship from the fire, he followed d'Escrainville across the Mediterranean. But when he hijacks the ship, Angélique is not on board. Escrainville had sold them in Algiers to Mezzo Morte, who wants to take them to the harem of the Sultan of Mikenez. Jeoffrey plans to save Angélique and pretends to have been shipwrecked so that he can be accepted into the Muslim city.

Meanwhile, Angélique is in the sultan's harem. She rebels against the instructions of Osman Ferradji, the master of the harem. She refuses to be presented to the Sultan as the new harem lady. One day, however, Angélique accidentally lifts her veil and is seen by the Sultan. He is immediately carried away by her beauty and orders her to his rooms. There she refuses to accept his donations and tries to kill the sultan. He has her whipped as a punishment. In addition, the sultan's favorite is jealous of Angélique and tries to kill her. Angélique is then taken by Colin Paturel, also a prisoner, and both of them are able to escape.

Meanwhile, Jeoffrey tries to buy Angélique out of the sultan by revealing the secret of how to turn lead into gold. In the palace, however, they discover that Angélique has fled. The Sultan then executes Osman Ferradji and sends out a search party.

In the desert, Colin Paturel confesses his love to Angélique and promises to kill her if she should fall back into the hands of the Sultan. As the search party approaches, Colin wants to keep his promise, but the soldiers shoot him first. Angélique passed out and later woke up in Jeoffrey's arms.

background

Angélique and the Sultan tells the second part of the novel Untamable Angélique , which was split up for the filming. The previous film Untamable Angélique describes Angélique's search for Jeoffrey and her sale on the slave market. Angélique and the Sultan is the last film in the five-part series. While Angélique finds her husband again at the end of this part, both of them only get each other in the novel in volume 6 Angélique and your love and experience numerous adventures together in the next seven volumes.

The costumes were designed by Rosine Delamare , the equipment is by Robert Giordani . The film was released on March 13, 1968 in Italy, on August 9, 1968 in Germany and on August 23 in France.

After being published on VHS video, the films in the Angélique series have been available in the original French version since 2007 and in German in a five-part DVD / Blu-Ray box since 2012.

In 2013, a new film was made under the title Angélique , based on the first four volumes of the new publication from 2008. The Turkish films Anjelik Osmanli saraylarinda (1967) and Anjelik ve Deli Ibrahim (1968) were made based on the novels by Anne Golon .

Reviews

"Elaborate, adventurous, unlikely"

- Cinema

“This fifth sequel to the Angélique series, which is beautifully and colorfully photographed, reports on the kidnapping of Angélique to Tunis, her harem adventures there and the rescue and happy return into the arms of her rightful husband, without making any particular effort to combine the audience. One and a half hours of well-groomed boredom! "

- Protestant film observer

Other films in the series

literature

  • Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema release at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  3. ↑ Critique No. 376/1968