Black Robe - On the Iroquois River
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Black Robe - On the Iroquois River |
| Original title | Black robe |
| Country of production | Canada , Australia |
| original language | English and a. |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bruce Beresford |
| script | Brian Moore |
| production |
Jake Eberts , Denis Héroux , Robert Lantos , Sue Milliken , Brian Moore , Eric Norlen , Stéphane Reichel |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Peter James |
| cut | Tim Wellburn |
| occupation | |
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Black Robe - Am River of the Iroquois ( Black Robe ) is a feature film from the year 1991 . The Australian director Bruce Beresford filmed the tragic story of the clash of two cultures and the enmity of the Indians based on the script by Brian Moore , which was based on his 1985 novel Schwarzrock ( Black Robe ).
action
The action of the film begins in 1634 in a small French settlement in Canada , where Jesuit missionaries try without much success to convert the Algonquian Indians living in the area to Christianity. The founder of the settlement, Samuel de Champlain , sends the young Jesuit Father LaForgue to find a Catholic mission in a remote Huron village . LaForgue is accompanied by Daniel, who does not belong to the Jesuits, as well as by an Indian family who are supposed to lead him to the village of the Hurons: the travel-experienced Chomina, who has clairvoyant dreams, his wife and daughter Annuka. During the trip, Daniel and Annuka fall in love.
The travelers meet a group of Montagnais Indians who have never had contact with the French. The Montagnais shaman is suspicious and grudges LaForgue's influence on the Algonquin. He accuses him of being a demon and persuades Chomina and his family to leave the two French and join the Montagnais. LaForgue is left alone because Daniel does not want to part with Annuka and follows the Indians through the forest. When one of the Indians tries to shoot Daniel, Chomina regrets his decision and returns to LaForgue with the two women and Daniel as well as a warrior and his young son.
After they have found him, they are attacked by Iroquois , Chomina's wife and the warrior are killed, the rest are captured and taken to the Iroquois camp, where they are slowly tortured to death - his son is killed in front of everyone. On the same night, Annuka succeeds in seducing one of the guards and freeing the others.
Khomina is fatally wounded from an injury sustained while captured. The refugees are forced to leave him in the snow, where he will freeze to death. LaForgue does not manage to convert him to Christianity before his death. When Chomina dies, a ghost appears to take him.
Annuka and Daniel bring LaForgue near the Huron village, but let him go alone because Chomina dreamed it that way. LaForgue finds out that the Hurons blame the Jesuits for the rampant smallpox epidemic and therefore killed one of the two. The other priest, who is dying, calls on LaForgue to offer the sick Hurons to baptize them and thus save them. When LaForgue confronts the Hurons, the chief asks him if he loves the Indians. LaForgue thinks of all the Indians he has met on his trip and answers yes. The Hurons are then baptized and adopt the Christian faith.
The film ends with a golden sunrise, but a text panel tells that the Iroquois overran the Hurons fifteen years later and destroyed the mission station.
Awards
- 1991: Black Robe received six Genie Awards , the "Canadian Oscars", and was nominated in four other categories
- In 1992 Stéphane Reichel, Sue Milliken and Robert Lantos together won a Genie Award
- In 1992, Peter James won the Australian Cinematographers Society's Cinematographer of the Year award
- In 1992 Peter James won an AFI Award from the Australian Film Institute
- In 1992 the film won a Golden Reel Award from the US Motion Picture Sound Editors
Background information
In Germany the film was sometimes completely wrongly categorized as a western . The film was shot in Canada, in the province of Québec . The grossing result was over 8.2 million US dollars.
Reviews
- The Chicago Sun-Times spoke of one of the most realistic descriptions of Native American life that has ever been made into a film, and said that the first encounters between the Indians of North America were more like those described in Black Robe , rather than those in Der mit compare the rousing adventures described with the wolf dances . Roger Ebert , November 1, 1991: "one of the most realistic depictions of Indian life I have seen."
- After the New York Times Book Review spoke of "Saint Legend" on the book, the New York Times praised it : "This film is great."
- film-dienst 11/1992: "Instead of using the opportunity for a discussion-worthy drama of the clash of religious-cultural opposites, the film exhausts itself in colorful adventurousness with beautiful landscape shots and drastic depiction of brutality."
literature
- Brian Moore : Black rock. Roman (Original Title: Black Robe ). German by Otto Bayer . Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-21755-2 , 264 pp.
Web links
- Black Robe - By the river of the Iroquois in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Black Robe - By the river of the Iroquois at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert: Critique. In: Chicago Sun-Times , November 1, 1991
- ↑ Black Robe - On the Iroquois River. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .