Bartok the great
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bartok the great |
| Original title | Bartok the Magnificent |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 67 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Don Bluth , Gary Goldman |
| script | Jay Lacopo |
| production | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Lori Forte |
| music | Stephen Flaherty |
| cut |
Bob Bender , Fiona Trayler |
Bartok the Magnificent (Original Title: Bartok the Magnificent ) is a fantasy - Cartoons from the year 1999 by the directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman .
action
The protagonist of the film is the albino bat Bartok, who had already appeared as a supporting character in the film Anastasia . The action takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia .
Bartok and his friend, the bear Zozi, are traveling as a duo of jugglers in Moscow and tell of the heroic adventurers they have experienced. The young Prince Ivan is also enthusiastic about Bartok's stories.
One night Ivan is kidnapped. His adviser Ludmilla tells the people that the witch Baba Jaga kidnapped the prince. The people appeal to Bartok to save Ivan. Bartok and Zozi go on a journey to the forest where Baba Jaga lives. Once there, Bartok is told by the witch that she will only release Ivan if Bartok brings her three special items. Bartok fulfills the tasks assigned to him, but Baba Yaga informs him that she has not kidnapped the prince and that he is still in Moscow. She also brews a magical potion from the items brought to her, which she gives to Bartok.
Bartok and Zozi return to Moscow, where Ludmilla has since taken over the reign of the city. Bartok eventually finds Ivan, who is locked in a tower. At that moment, Ludmilla reveals that it was she who ordered Ivan's capture, blaming Baba Yaga for taking over the Russian throne. She steals Bartok's magical potion and drinks it herself, which causes her to transform into a giant dragon and begin destroying Moscow. A fight breaks out between Bartok and Ludmilla, which ends with the fact that he lures them to the top of the tower in which Ivan was imprisoned. The tower collapses and Ludmilla is killed. In the end, Bartok is celebrated as a hero.
synchronization
| role | English speaker |
|---|---|
| Bartok | Hank Azaria |
| Zozi | Kelsey Grammer |
| Baba Yaga | Andrea Martin |
| Ludmilla | Catherine O'Hara |
| Ivan | Phillip Van Dyke |
publication
The film was released on November 16, 1999 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment as a direct-to-video production on VHS and DVD .
The TV premiere of the film took place on December 12, 1999 on Fox Family .
reception
Joe Leydon described the characters in the film as "lively, if stereotypical" and the plot as "captivating" in the trade journal Variety on November 28, 1999 .
In apolloguide.com, Dan Jardin described the film's music as "first class" and the voice actors as "well chosen". He criticized the animation of the film as “not according to the cinema standard”.
Michael Dequina described the plot of the film on December 3, 1999 in themoviereport.com as "uninspired, but mercifully short" and wrote that the film is slightly amusing for children, but boring for everyone else.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Joe Leydon: Review: 'Bartok the Magnificent'. Variety, November 28, 1999, accessed March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Home Video - Merchants & Marketing . In: Billboard . tape 111 , no. 27 , 1999, ISSN 0006-2510 , pp. 75 .
- ↑ Bartok the Magnificent (1999). Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.10 - JANUARY 2000. (No longer available online.) Animation World News, January 2000, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dan Jardin: Bartok the Magnificent. apolloguide.com, archived from the original on December 5, 2000 ; accessed on March 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Michael Dequina: Movies - Bartok the Magnificent. themoviereport.com, December 3, 1999, accessed March 8, 2015 .
