The Baghdad crook
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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 |
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Director | Arthur Lubin |
script |
Augusto Frassinetti Filippo Sanjust Bruno Vailati |
production | Bruno Vailati |
music | Carlo Rustichelli |
camera | Tonino delli Colli |
cut | Gene Ruggiero |
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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 . "
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
- ↑ quoted from Hahn / Jansen / Stresau, Lexikon des Fantasy Films, Munich 1985.
- ↑ Christoph Schmitt: Adaptations of classic fairy tales in children's and family television, 1998, p. 458
Web links
- The crook of Baghdad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Baghdad Rogue in the online film database