The Baghdad crook

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Movie
German title The Baghdad crook
Original title Il ladro di Baghdad
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1960
length 100 (shortened: 88) minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Arthur Lubin
script Augusto Frassinetti
Filippo Sanjust
Bruno Vailati
production Bruno Vailati
music Carlo Rustichelli
camera Tonino delli Colli
cut Gene Ruggiero
occupation

The crook of Baghdad (original title: Il ladro di Bagdad ) is an Italian-French adventure film with fantasy elements from 1960 , which was shot in Italy by Arthur Lubin . The German premiere was on March 1, 1962.

action

Karim is a handsome thief who specializes in robbing the better classes in Baghdad: With the help of disguise, quick wit and acrobatics, he penetrates a wedding party at court, where he falls in love with Princess Amina. Her fiancé Osman tries to influence Amina with a magic potion, whereupon she falls into a deep sleep. Karim takes advice from a magician who sends him on a search for a blue magic flower that can reawaken the princess. After battles against snake trees, an invisible giant, a beautiful witch and other adventures, he rides a flying horse into the temple of the blue flower. A last, great fight against Osman's troops is victorious with the help of numerous doppelgangers - Amina is awakened, and the lovers are united.

criticism

“Steve Reeves has the vitality and charm of a motorcycle bull. And the other characters behave like the amazed and stoic victims of one. "

“The tricks, an important part of a film of this kind, are comparatively unskilled; Humor is seldom at work; the dialogues remain paper; the Orient smells of cardboard and paste; although many recordings were made in Tunis . "

- Film Service , Volume 58.

Remarks

Although the film is often referred to as a remake of The Thief of Baghdad (also in the dictionary of fantasy films ) , the story is based on the Chinese fairy tale The Blue Flower , the plot of which was relocated to the Orient .

Individual evidence

  1. quoted from Hahn / Jansen / Stresau, Lexikon des Fantasy Films, Munich 1985.
  2. Christoph Schmitt: Adaptations of classic fairy tales in children's and family television, 1998, p. 458

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