The secret of the castle in the Carpathian Mountains
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The secret of the castle in the Carpathian Mountains |
| Original title | Tajemství hradu v Karpatech |
| Country of production | ČSSR |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oldřich Lipský |
| script |
Jiří Brdečka Oldřich Lipský |
| production | Barrandov film studio |
| music | Luboš Fišer |
| camera | Viktor Růžička |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
| occupation | |
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The Secret of the Castle in the Carpathian Mountains is a 1981 Czechoslovak film comedy based on the novel The Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne .
action
The film tells the story of the opera singer Count Teleke von Tölökö, who after the death of his fiancée, the opera singer Salsa Verde, looks for distraction. During a hike undertaken on this occasion, he comes, accompanied by his servant Ignaz, near a mysterious castle in the Carpathian Mountains. At the foot of the castle he finds the unconscious forester Vilja Dezi. The count learns from the residents of a nearby village that the castle is supposed to be a "devil's castle", which has been abandoned and on which ghosts who haunt at night are said to live. The count himself does not believe in such stories and decides to pay a visit to the castle to get to the bottom of the strange apparitions. When the count learns which sex the castle once belonged to, he has a bad premonition. The forester, who has since recovered, accompanies him as he climbs the castle.
At the castle, the count and the forester experience inexplicable and strange things. Finally, they meet Baron Gorzow here, who has created a refuge with the most modern inventions at the castle. The inventions come from Professor Orfanik, a mad scientist who is in the Baron's service. Finally the count discovers that the baron is holding the count's fiancée, the opera singer Salsa, who apparently did not die after all, imprisonment.
The count decides to free his fiancée. This leads to a fight with the baron. Here it turns out, however, that Salsa is dead after all and the baron has only preserved her body and is looking at the film and sound recordings of the singer. In the course of the fight, the preserved body and the film and sound recordings of the singer are destroyed. Since he has now lost everything, the baron finally blows up the castle, but Count Teleke and forester Vilja can escape beforehand.
Cast and dubbing
| role | actor | Voice actor |
| Count Teleke von Tölökö | Michal Dočolomanský | Manfred Wagner |
| Salsa Verde | Evelyna Steimarová | Helga Piur |
| Baron Gorzow | Miloš Kopecký | Fred Alexander |
| Valet Ignaz | Vlastimil Brodský | Klaus Mertens |
| Prof. Orfanik | Rudolf Hrušínský | Achim Petry |
| Forester Vilja Dezi | Jan Hartl | Christian Steyer |
| Tomá | Augustin Kuban | Carl Heinz Choynski |
The film was dubbed by the DEFA studio for synchronization for performances in the GDR. The cinema start in the GDR was on July 16, 1982, the German first broadcast took place on July 30, 1984 in the 2nd program of the television of the GDR .
criticism
The lexicon of international film praised the "(un) entertaining film adaptation of a highly dramatic novel by Jules Verne, which sets pleasant comedic accents and absorbs some dramaturgical weaknesses through richness in decor and equipment."
background
The film was produced in the Barrandov film studio , the first distribution was Ústřední půjčovna filmů (ÚPF) . An alternative title is Orfanik - The Secret of the Castle in the Carpathian Mountains .
Web links
- The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos of the film on ČSFD.cz