The Lion of Babylon (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The lion of Babylon |
| Original title | The Lion of Babylon En las ruinas de Babilonia |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Johannes Kai (German version) Ramón Torrado (Spanish version) |
| script | Johannes Kai Ramón Torrado |
| production | DCF Documentary and Color-Film H. Neubert KG ( Heinz Neubert ) Jesús Sáiz Aquila Film SA, Madrid |
| music | Ulrich Sommerlatte |
| camera | Ricardo Torres |
| cut |
Gaby Peñalba Claus from Boro |
| occupation | |
| |
The Lion of Babylon is a movie by Johannes Kai based on motifs by Karl May ( Karl May film ). The screenplay is based on Karl May's novel In the ruins of Babylon and motifs from In the Reign of the Silver Lion . After the great success of Die Sklavenkarawane , the film adaptation of the second prank by Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar in the dangerous Orient followed. However, the actor who played Kara Ben Nemsi from the previous film was replaced by Helmuth Schneider . Georg Thomalla , however, embodies Hajji Halef Omar again. Other important roles include Theo Lingen , Fernando Sancho and Mara Cruz .
The Spanish version En las ruinas de Babilonia was directed by Ramón Torrado .
action
The sheik of the Haddedihn tribe, Hajji Halef Omar , and Kara Ben Nemsi discover the machinations of an honorable official, the safir, who actually owes his fortune to arms smuggling.
Eighteen-year-old Säfa and her twenty-year-old brother Ikbal also live in his palace on the Euphrates. Säfa thinks the Säfir is her father, but is the daughter of Police Captain Dosorza, and Ikbal is his son. Her mother was killed by the smugglers 20 years ago and the children were kidnapped. Dosorza thinks she is dead.
Ikbal has fallen in love with the merchant's daughter Irida, who prevents him from raiding a caravan for the Säfir. Out of anger, the Säfir has them both thrown into a dungeon, in which the German professor Ignaz Pfotenhauer and the eccentric English world traveler Sir David Lindsay are languishing.
Kara Ben Nemsi sneaks into the palace to free the prisoners, while the police, alerted by Säfa, surround the palace. Kara Ben Nemsi is able to free the prisoners at the last minute. The Säfir met its fair fate.
background
Filming began in early June 1959 in Madrid in the Seville studios of co-producer Jesús Sáiz. As with the predecessor Die Sklavenkarawane was filmed in a German and a Spanish version. The working title of the film was In the Ruins of Babylon . A hotel in Aranjuez served as the base. The Tagus , which served as the Nile in the slave caravan , now represented the Tigris . There were sometimes heated debates between the German and Spanish directors. Filming was completed on schedule in August.
The film premiered on October 20, 1959 in the Bavaria-Filmtheater in Würzburg . The business results of the previous film could not be achieved.
synchronization
Due to the large number of Spanish actors, dubbing was necessary for the German version:
| role | actor | voice |
|---|---|---|
| Kara Ben Nemsi | Helmuth Schneider | Helmuth Schneider |
| Hajji Halef Omar | Georg Thomalla | Georg Thomalla |
| Sir David Lindsay | Theo Lingen | Theo Lingen |
| Prof. Ignaz Pfotenhauer | Fernando Sancho | Michl Lang |
| Säfa | Mara Cruz | Rosemarie Fendel |
| Aftab | José Manuel Martín | Horst Sommer |
| Spy Abdullah | Xan das Bolas | Willy Friedrichs |
| Osman Pasha | Francisco Montalvo | Willy Friedrichs |
| Dosorza | Antonio Casas | Herbert Weicker |
| Ali | José Riesgo | Anton Reimer |
| Kepek | Ángel Álvarez | Anton Reimer |
| officer | Francisco Bernal | Klaus Havenstein |
| Sanjaki | José Sepúlveda | Wolf Ackva |
Others
The film was the first Karl May film ever to be broadcast in black and white on German television on ARD on March 28 and April 4, 1965 , before the film Die Sklavenkarawane, which had previously been shot.
The actor of Prof. Pfotenhauer , Fernando Sancho , played in the other film adaptations of the 1960s Through wild Kurdistan and In the realm of the silver lion , but then rose as "Padischah".
Reviews
"Moderately exciting Karl May adventure, which does not do justice to the core of the book and puts farce-comic situations in the foreground."
“Georg Thomalla as Hajji Halef Omar is the sheer caricature of an oriental (...). (Rating: 1½ out of 4 possible stars - moderate ) "
Soundtrack
- Wild West - Hot Orient - Karl May Film Music 1936–1968 - Bear Family Records BCD 16413 HL - 8 CDs with 192 pages of film book
literature
- Michael Petzel: Karl May Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, second expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4
Web links
- The Lion of Babylon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Lion of Babylon on filmposter-archiv.de
- The Lion of Babylon Illustrated Film Stage No. 5020
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lion of Babylon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, p. 517, ISBN 3-89136-392-3