Black Beauty (1971)

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Movie
Original title Black Beauty
Country of production Germany , Spain
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director James Hill
script Artur Brauner (as Art Bernd )
Pedro Samu
production Artur Brauner for CCC-Film
Emiliano Piedra for Emiliano Piedra Producción
music Lionel Bart
John Cameron
camera Fernando Arribas
cut Pablo G. Del Amo
occupation

Black Beauty is a German-Spanish literary film adaptation by James Hill from 1971. It is based on the novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell .

action

Young Joe Evans receives a newborn foal from his father , which he baptizes Black Beauty because of its black color . The boy and the horse become friends, but the father loses his farm and with it the horse to the unscrupulous and cold-hearted Sam Greener. He in turn gambled away the horse in a bet, but died on the ride home in a fall. Black Beauty is found by a gypsy and taken away, a dealer in turn finds the animal and finally sells it to the Hackenschmidt Circus . Marie Hackenschmidt rides it in her circus performances and uses it for artistry. Her circus, however, is in competition with the Lorent Circus and so Marie is kidnapped by men from the other company during a ride. Black Beauty succeeds in freeing the tied Marie, but he also kills the leader of the gang, Lorent. The circus director Hackenschmidt does not want a murderer in his circus and so he gives the horse to the nobleman Sir William Piggot, who had come to his aid in the liberation of Marie.

Pigott takes Black Beauty to his estate and gives the horse to his daughter Lady Anne. She is in love with Lieutenant Gervaise, but the father does not allow the relationship. When Gervaise volunteers for a war mission, Lady Anne gives him Black Beauty. Gervaise falls in the war, and Black Beauty is sold back in Europe by the destitute soldiers to a landlord who uses the horse as a pack animal. When Black Beauty almost dies, he is nursed up, but taken to a coal plant for coal transportation. On one of these strenuous tours, the animal lover Anna Sewell's horse catches the eye , who Black Beauty immediately buys and has it brought to her sanctuary. Her confidante is none other than the now grown-up Joe Evans, who immediately associates Black Beauty with a memory of his past. His father, who lives with Sewell, also realizes that Joe has led the new horse before. The end shows Black Beauty in a large meadow with other horses.

production

The shooting took place from July to November 1970 in Madrid and the surrounding area as well as in the Ardmore Studios Bray in Ireland . Black Beauty had its premiere on September 9, 1971 at the Postlichtspiele in Dießen am Ammersee .

The film was also released on video under the long title Black Beauty - In Search of Happiness .

The German version has been shortened by over 20 minutes compared to the international version of the film.

criticism

The lexicon of international films found that "the classic animal story was filmed here in a not particularly successful European co-production".

For Cinema , Black Beauty was a "striking film adaptation of the Anna Sewell novel".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 349.
  2. See cinema.de