Conan the destroyer

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Movie
German title Conan the destroyer
Original title Conan the Destroyer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Richard Fleischer
script Stanley Mann
production Raffaella De Laurentiis ,
Edward R. Pressman
music Basil Poledouris
camera Jack Cardiff
cut Frank J. Urioste
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synchronization
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Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Destroyer is a fantasy film from 1984 belonging to the genre of the barbarian film . The character Conan the Cimmerians is based on a character by Robert E. Howard . The film follows on from Conan the Barbarian . The film opened in German cinemas on October 19, 1984.

action

The equally beautiful and vicious Queen Taramis asks Conan for help. He is supposed to escort her niece, Princess Jehnna, to the castle of the magician Toth-Amon to get a magic diamond. In return, she promises to bring his beloved Valeria back from the dead. The diamond itself, which only the chosen princess is allowed to touch, is the key to a far greater treasure, a jeweled horn, which is supposed to awaken Dagoth, the dreaming god, when it is placed in the forehead of his statue.

So Conan goes with his companions, the thief Malak, the magician Akiro, the warrior Zula and the princess Jehnna as well as their bodyguard Bombaata, on the way to Toth-Amon's ice palace, which rises from the middle of a lake. The night before the crossing to the castle, Jehnna is kidnapped by Toth-Amon, who wants the power of the artifact for himself. Conan and his companions set out to save them. In the hall of mirrors of the castle, in which the jewel is also located, there is a fight between Conan and the wizard, who sends a gorilla-like monster towards him.

After Toth-Amon has been defeated and the diamond has been taken into their possession, the group travels to the temple where the horn is kept. On the way they are attacked by soldiers who kidnap Jehnna. However, Conan manages to defeat the attackers and free the princess. He suspects Bombaata's people are behind the attack, but Conan credibly assures him that he has nothing to do with the attack.

When they arrive at the temple, the keeper of the horn and his henchmen are waiting for them. He too wants to claim the power of the dreaming God for himself.

After hard fighting and a magical duel between Akiro and the guardian, who is also a wizard, they manage to escape through a tunnel, which Bombaata collapses before Conan and his friends can get out. He had received orders of his own from Queen Taramis to bring only Jehnna and the treasure home intact, but to kill Conan. Jehnna as the bearer of the horn is to be sacrificed to the dreaming God.

Now Conan realizes that Taramis' promise was only a lie, and sets out to save Jehnna from her fate.

Through a secret passage that a relative of Malak had laid out years ago, they get to the palace complex, where there is first a showdown between Conan and Bombaata.

In the meantime the great renaissance ceremony of the deity is in full swing, the horn has been reinserted into the god's forehead and the god is awakened to new life. Conan can prevent the sacrifice of Jehnna at the last moment; however, by disrupting the ritual, Dagoth turns into a hideous monster that can only be defeated by tearing the magic horn out of it. Queen Taramis is killed while trying to appease the monster.

After all evil has received its just punishment, Jehnna, now queen, awards the highest offices in her empire as a reward to Conan's companions. Zula is to take the post of supreme warlord, Akiro is appointed advisor to the queen, and Malak is given the post of court jester due to his clumsy and friendly demeanor. Conan himself offers her to rule with her at her side; However, he refuses and moves on alone in search of his own kingdom and his lost queen.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Conan Arnold Schwarzenegger Thomas Danneberg
Zula Grace Jones Barbara Ratthey
Bombaata Wilt Chamberlain Karl Schulz
Akiro the magician Mako Heinz-Theo branding
Malak Tracey Walter Gerd Duwner
Queen Taramis Sarah Douglas Ursula Heyer
Princess Jehnna Olivia d'Abo Katja Nottke
Toth-Amon Pat Roach Michael Chevalier
Grand Vizier Jeff Corey Otto Czarski
The Guardian Ferdinand Mayne Wilhelm Borchert

Dubbing company: Rainer Brandt Filmproduktion, Berlin

Awards

Two supporting actresses brought the film two nominations and one award in 1985. While Grace Jones was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, Olivia d'Abo was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actress and honored in the "Worst New Star" category. Her role in Ecstasy (US title Bolero ) was decisive for this award .

Reviews

According to the lexicon of international films , “Conan the Destroyer” is a “one-dimensional film with numerous exhibition fights; elaborately and relatively bloodlessly staged. For friends of naive comics. ”The book The Worst Films of All Time reads:“ Arnold Schwarzenegger in the fight against the monster god Dagoth (controlled by 16 technicians). This time too, the Lord unfortunately failed to throw brains out of the sky. ”Christian Horn writes at Filmstarts.de :“ In contrast to 'Conan, the barbarian', the successor hardly develops any charm: it's too stupid, too cheap and simply too boring The second adventure of the barbarian came. "The Große TV Spielfilm Filmlexikon ruled:" Richard Fleischer made sure that his sequel, equipped with a good dose of self-irony and an exaggeration of the fantastic elements, was much easier to bear than the Milius predecessor from 1982. "

The film received mostly negative reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives the film 26% positive reviews and it has a Metascore of 53 out of 100 on Metacritic .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conan the Destroyer. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on May 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Conan the Destroyer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ The Worst Movies Ever. ISBN 3-89602-514-7 .
  4. ^ Criticism at filmstarts.de
  5. ↑ -jg- in: The great TV feature film film lexicon. Digital library special volume (CD-ROM edition). Directmedia, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-036-1 , pp. 2439-2440.
  6. ↑ Conan the Destroyer at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  7. ↑ Conan the Destroyer at Metacritic (English)