Your time is up

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Movie
German title Your time is up
Original title Behold a pale horse
Country of production USA , France
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Fred Zinnemann
script JP Miller
production Fred Zinnemann
music Maurice Jarre
camera Jean Badal
cut Walter Thompson
occupation
synchronization

Your time is up (Original title: Behold a Pale Horse ) is an American - French film drama directed by Fred Zinnemann from 1964. The film is based on the novel Don't come to Pamplona ( Killing a Mouse on Sunday , 1961) by Emeric Pressburger , which in turn is loosely based on the life of the Spanish anarchist Francesc Sabaté Llopart .

action

Twenty years after the end of the Spanish Civil War , the boy Paco Dages from San Martin in Spain comes to Pau to persuade a comrade of his recently killed father, the former guerrilla leader Manuel Artiguez, to return to San Martin and the Guardia-Civil -Capitan To kill Viñolas who murdered the father. Artiguez flatly refuses, but later contacts Paco again and asks him about the local situation when he learns that his mother Pilar is dying in the hospital in San Martin. Viñolas expects Artiguez to visit his mother and sets a trap for him by encircling the hospital in an inconspicuous manner. The trap is ready, but the mother dies without Artiguez showing up. Viñolas decides to keep Pilar's death a secret and sends his informant Carlos to Artiguez to convince him to visit.

At the same time, the priest Francisco, who was with his mother on his deathbed, goes on a pilgrimage to Lourdes . When the train stops in Pau, he wants to send Artiguez a message in which - following his mother's last wish - he tells him about his mother's death and warns him not to come to San Martin. When he tried to post the letter at the station, he missed the onward journey of his train and decided to deliver the message personally. In Artiguez's apartment, however, he only meets Paco, who destroys the letter entrusted to him for forwarding, because he wants Artiguez to go to San Martin and kill Viñolas in the process. When Paco recognizes one of Viñola's men in Carlos, he warns Artiguez and tells him about the priest and his letter. He doesn't know who to believe.

Artiguez goes to Lourdes with Paco and Carlos to meet the priest, but he is not there. You let Carlos go. On the way back to Pau they meet the priest, who has not yet reached Lourdes, and take him into the house. Carlos also comes to the house to get his forgotten backpack, sees the priest and escapes. After a discussion with the priest, Artiguez decides to go to San Martin. Once there, he notices a sniper on the roof of the hospital where his mother was lying. He attacks the shooter and kills him. He shoots the informant Carlos, wounds Viñolas, breaks into the hospital, kills a few more guards and is then shot. In his triumph, Viñolas wonders why Artiguez came to San Martin when he knew his mother was already dead. At that moment you can see the bodies of mother and son lying next to each other in the morgue .

background

The film was shot in the Val-de-Marne department , France . The German premiere was on October 16, 1964.

Reviews

"Fred Zinnemann deals with a politically charged conflict in a non-political way," said the lexicon of international film .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Manuel Artiguez Gregory Peck Curt Ackermann
Viñolas Anthony Quinn Gerhard Geisler
Francisco Omar Sharif Reinhard Glemnitz
Carlos Raymond Pellegrin Wolfgang Hess
Zaganar Christian Marquand Manfred Andrae

literature

  • Emeric Pressburger : Don't come to Pamplona (Original title: Killing a Mouse on Sunday ). German by Günther Huster . German Book Association, Berlin, Darmstadt and Vienna 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Your time is up. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Your time is up. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 7, 2017 .