Camelot - The curse of the golden sword
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Camelot - The curse of the golden sword |
| Original title | Sword of the Valiant - The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephen Weeks |
| script |
Stephen Weeks Howard C. Pen Philip M. Breen |
| music | Ron Geesin |
| camera |
Peter Hurst Freddie Young |
| cut |
Richard Marden Barry Peters |
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Camelot is a 1984 British fantasy film based on the chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . The film did not come into German cinemas and was marketed directly as a VHS from December 15, 1985 .
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At the court of King Arthur, a mysterious, glowing green knight appears out of nowhere. He challenges Arthur's people to a game. He is looking for a man brave enough to behead him with his own ax. However, if the blow fails, the green knight has the right to return the blow in the same way.
Only the young squire Gawain has the courage to accept the game. Gawain takes the ax and the green knight bows his head. After a moment's hesitation, Gawain strikes and the stranger's head falls to the ground. The blow seems to have succeeded. The body of the green knight, however, rises, runs to the severed head, and sits on it again. The crowd is speechless and can't believe what is happening. Gawain, rigid with shock, now knows that death is in store for him. The green knight takes his ax and strikes. But unexpectedly he deliberately fails to give Gawain one last chance in the form of a riddle:
Where life is empty - happiness
Where life is dark - fire
Where life is golden - pain
Where life is lost - wisdom
When it is If the young Gawain succeeded in deciphering this riddle within a year, his life would be spared. If not, the green knight will return and carry out his death sentence.
The very next morning Gawain and his squire Humphrey begin the search for the solution. A mysterious sorceress tells him to ride to Lyonesse and blow a horn. Gawain goes there and blows the horn, hoping to solve part of his riddle. But instead he calls the black knight, the King of Lyonesse. Gawain seems inferior, but can mortally wound the black knight in a tough fight. He asks Gawain to bring him to his castle to die, which Gawain then does. When they arrive, however, the black knight wants his soldiers to arrest him and Gawain tries to escape. When he is trapped on a bridge and surrounded, Princess Linet discovers him. She gives him a ring with which he can make himself invisible. In this way he can escape his pursuers, and Linet takes him into her room.
Linet wants to convince the Queen of Lyonesse to crown Gawain as the new king. The queen refuses at first, but when Gawain then stands in front of her, she is completely delighted with him and sees him more as a new lover. But because Gawain does not want to comply with the queen's wishes, he decides to flee Lyonesse with Linet. When they are about to leave the next morning, they are discovered by guards and finally separated. Linet is barely able to give Gawain her magic ring, and Gawain is promoted to an unknown location. After a hint from a friendly monk, he goes to the rock of wisdom, where he asks the wise man for help in solving the riddle. The latter cannot help him with this, but can bring him back to Lyonesse with the help of a spell.
Back in Lyonesse Castle, he has to wake Linet from a kind of deep sleep by giving her back her ring. While he is collecting firewood, Linet is kidnapped and taken to the court of Baron Fortinbras. With the intention of freeing Linet, he can enter the castle of Baron Fortinbras camouflaged as a slave. After a short time he knew that Linet was being held in a tower and tried to free her with the help of a rope. But just then he has to watch as a fire breaks out in the tower and Linet is close to death. During his rescue attempt, Gawain is caught by guards and the rope is cut. He falls into the moat and can no longer go back to the castle.
Believing Linet is dead, Gawain separates from his allies and roams aimlessly. Completely exhausted, he discovers another castle in the distance, where he begs for admission. The master of the castle is Sir Bertilak, who is enemies with Baron Fortinbras and gives Gawain shelter. During the service in the castle chapel, he suddenly sees Linet again and is overjoyed. From her he learns that she was saved from the flames by Sir Bertilak.
When Gawain has fully recovered and received new armor, he reunited with his soldiers and went into battle against Oswald. Gawain and his men can assert themselves against Oswald's troops, and ultimately kill Oswald. The green knight then approaches Gawain and reminds him of his task. Gawain could not completely solve the riddle, whereupon he goes with the green knight to his palace to redeem his agreement. Gawain kneels down and the green knight takes out his ax - and hits it. In the ensuing fight, the green knight surrenders after a short time and crumbles to ashes. The green knight lived only one borrowed year, which began with his appearance at King Arthur. Gawain now notices that he has completely solved the puzzle.
When he returns to Linet, she confesses to him that she too only lived a borrowed year, which began with Gawain's courageous act at the court of King Arthur. She asks Gawain to touch her cheek. When he does this, Linet turns into a pigeon and flies away.
Reviews
“A ridiculous sequence of well-known trivial patterns; boring in the action scenes too. "
Web links
- Camelot - The curse of the golden sword in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Camelot - The Curse of the Golden Sword. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 5, 2010 .