Manitou's shoe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Manitou's shoe |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 82 minutes Extra Large : 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Herbig |
| script | Michael Herbig Rick Kavanian Alfons Biedermann Murmel Clausen |
| production | Michael Herbig Michael Wolf |
| music | Ralf Wengenmayr |
| camera |
Stephan Schuh Eddie Schneidermeier (EL) |
| cut | Alexander Dittner |
| occupation | |
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Der Schuh des Manitu is a German feature film by Michael "Bully" Herbig from 2001 . The western comedy parodies Karl May films from the 1960s and is one of the most successful German films after the Second World War , with 11.7 million visitors and 65 million euros in box office sales . Manitou's Shoe celebrated distributed by Constantin Film 2001 premiere on July 13 and was first on March 7, 2004 at the Free TV shown. ProSieben holds the broadcasting rights for television broadcasts .
The film was made as a relatively small project under the direction and production management of Michael Herbig, who was also mainly responsible for the script and played two of the main roles. Other main characters are played by Christian Tramitz , Sky du Mont , Marie Bäumer and Rick Kavanian . The basic concept for the film took a Herbig Sketch series of his comedy - TV Program Bullyparade .
The film parodies the Karl May adaptations with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker in the leading roles as Winnetou and Old Shatterhand and borrows from spaghetti westerns .
action
Ranger , a white southerner, once saved Abahachi , the chief of the Apaches, at an open railroad crossing. According to the traditions of the Apaches, the two became a blood brotherhood .
At the beginning the two blood brothers ride to the Shoshone . Abahachi has borrowed a considerable sum of money from their tribal chief Listiger Lurch in order to buy a new (regular) restaurant from Santa Maria , allegedly a real estate agent from Wyoming . However, when it becomes clear that Santa Maria (in truth a devious villain) is trying to rip Abahachi, the Shoshone chief's son, Wrong Hare , grabs the money after delivering it and tries to escape. However, Santa Maria shoots him and there is a brief firefight between his gang and Abahachi and Ranger. When the latter runs out of ammunition, Santa Maria disappears with his gang. Abahachi and Ranger bring the body of his son to the Shoshone chief and want to explain everything to him. However, Santa Maria joins them and blames the two of them for the murder of the wrong hare, which is why the cunning Lurch wants to have them both executed the next day.
During the night, Abahachi and Ranger quarrel because Ranger no longer enjoys the typical activities (riding through the steppe, sneaking up, being tied to torture stakes, etc.). Abahachi thinks of an old treasure with which they could buy their way out again. Hombre , one of Santa Maria's numerous henchmen, has noticed the whole thing and frees them unnoticed so that Santa Maria can steal this treasure too. Santa Maria lets Hombre pursue the two. He himself stays with the Shoshone, who, when they notice the escape of the two, dig up the folding chair for lack of a hatchet .
Since Abahachi only has a quarter of the treasure map, he and Ranger ride to Abahachi's gay twin brother Winnetouch , who owns another part of the map. Winnetouch reminds Abahachi over a drink on his Powder Pink Ranch , which has been converted into a beauty salon , that he once gave the other two parts to his best friends, the Greek Dimitri and his childhood sweetheart Uschi . When the three realize that they are being besieged by Santa Maria's gang, Winnetouch disguises himself as an Abahachi to distract them; Abahachi rides to Dimitri, Ranger to Uschi. Winnetouch is captured and held on Powder-Rosa under Hombres supervision; but in the time they spend together, the two gradually become friends.
When Uschi, the singer in a saloon, is about to give her part of the card to Ranger, they are overwhelmed by Santa Maria. When the two do not show up at the agreed meeting point, Abahachi and Dimitri want to save them. But Abahachi is also caught, giving Santa Maria all parts of the map. He rides off with his gang, takes Uschi with him (because she has her part of the card tattooed on her back), ties Abahachi, Winnetouch and Ranger, sets fire to the ranch and leaves the three tied up. However, they can be freed by Dimitri.
Santa Maria finds the shoe of Manitu , a mountain with a cave in which the treasure is hidden. He goes into the cave while his gang is on guard outside. Abahachi, Ranger and Winnetouch are able to save Uschi and convince Hombre to join them. While Dimitri distracts the rest of the gang, the others sneak into the cave. You can steal the treasure from Santa Maria, who falls through a trap door into a pit of oily mud and sinks into it. When they leave the cave, the Shoshone appear. In the fight that follows, the rest of Santa Maria's gang is defeated. Winnetouch lost the treasure while escaping from the cave, but Hombre tells the cunning Lurch the truth about his son's murderer and gives him back the stolen gold.
Abahachi and Ranger reconcile over their initial argument. Uschi is pregnant with Ranger, but persuades him to ride on with Abahachi. Dimitri becomes Abahachi's blood brother, which finally makes his long wish to become an Indian come true. Karl May , whom Abahachi met in Dimitri's tavern, writes a book about the events (i.e. the Winnetou novels), Cunning Lurch overcomes his grief over his son False Hare with a rabbit costume by Winnetouch and is now called Cunning Hare . In the final scene, Abahachi and Ranger slowly ride through the prairie.
main characters
Abahachi , the Apache chief, is not just a corruption of “but hatschi”, but also a double allusion to Winnetou and the half-blood Apanatschi , an original Karl May film from the 1960s, as well as to another character from Karl May's books, Hajji Halef Omar .
The name of his blood brother Ranger is reminiscent of the actor Stewart Granger , who played Old Surehand in three Karl May films. He's also a reference to an American western character named Lone Ranger . He was also traveling on behalf of justice, usually accompanied by his Indian friend Tonto.
Winnetouch , Abahachi's homosexual twin brother, satirizes Winnetou. His Powder Rosa Ranch, which has been converted into a beauty farm, is an allusion to the "Ponderosa Ranch" of the Cartwright family from the TV western series Bonanza .
It is also worth mentioning the allusion to Uschi Glas , who played the Indian girl Apanatschi in Winnetou and the half-blood Apanatschi , when naming the seductive film beauty Uschi .
The Indian grandfather is called cataract . Possibly the wise, white-haired Klekih-petra (white father) from Winnetou I was his godfather.
The name of the businessman Santa Maria is based on the villain Santer from Winnetou I - III and the title character from the film The Oil Prince . His henchman Hombre probably comes from the US western Man called him Hombre with Paul Newman in the lead role.
The restaurant owner Dimitri serves as a deputy for a Mexican, especially since his taverna is in Texas. A reference to the film A Rabbi in the Wild West would also be possible . It could also be a reference to southern types in the spaghetti westerns. The figure already existed in the Bully Parade as a talk show host in the “Klatschcafé with Dimitri”, a series within the Bully Parade . In addition, the sentence “if I'm not mistaken” and the change of wig in the final scene reminds of the character of Sam Hawken from the Karl May films of the 1960s, who was once scalped by the Indians .
Further allusions
The plot of the film is based closely on Karl May productions such as Der Schatz im Silbersee . The constantly recurring basic pattern is: "bad whites" cheat "good whites". The Indians initially think the good guys are bad and dig up the hatchet, which leads to skirmishes for a hidden treasure. Ultimately, only Winnetou and Old Shatterhand can turn things around for the better.
There are also borrowings from other film classics and cultural events of the 1960s: The Schoshone chief "Cunning Lurch" is holding a rabbit, much like Ernst Stavro Blofeld once held his cat in James Bond films or Joseph Beuys a rabbit, when he explained the pictures to the dead rabbit during an art event .
Further allusions relate to Sergio Leone 's spaghetti westerns , Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves , the mine trip in the cart from Steven Spielberg's second Indiana Jones film and various scenes from Terminator 2 - Judgment Day . In addition, the music that is played just before the Manitou's Shoe is first seen and other events in the Manitou's Shoe are also reminiscent of the Indiana Jones film series. Winnetouch plays the song Harry Lime Theme from the classic film The Third Man on the zither while he, Abahachi and Ranger are at the Powder Pink Ranch. On the CD for the film, it is included in the “Beauty tips from the Powder Rosa Ranch”. When Ranger and Uschi are captured by Santa Maria, Ranger plays the song Moon River from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's on the harmonica .
The Manitu shoe thus uses set pieces from different genre areas, as the Rhein-Zeitung of July 16, 2001 also noted:
“On the one hand, the comedy is aimed at people who have experienced the frugal TV age with three programs and who have been socialized with stories by Karl May (he also has a brief appearance) and series like Shiloh Ranch and Smoking Colts . As in spaghetti westerns, the film was shot here in Almería , Spain , and there are plenty of stubby male faces with butts or harmonica in their mouths posing à la Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson . Especially in the many funny details, quotes and puns you feel reminded of Asterix comics. "
At the aforementioned brief appearance by Karl May, the latter presented his book “The Treasure in Silbersee”, in which a ride on the railroad trolley also played a role. When Santa Maria comes to an end in a pit of oily mud, Winnetouch quotes with the sentence “Thank God! Now the wrongdoing is over! ” Wilhelm Busch's classic Max and Moritz .
At the end, the group of Shoshone appears at the “Schuh des Manitu” and, while running around the corner, sings the melody that soldiers in training sing while marching together in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket . In the last scene of the film, the narrator mentions that Uschi and Ranger's child is named Stan Laurel .
Alternative versions
Extra large
After the great success of the film, an extra-large version was created for television , for which a seven-minute opening credits were shot. It starts with how Abahachi and Winnetouch grew up. In addition to three actors from the movie (Michael Bully Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Rick Kavanian), other people were also involved in the shoot who cannot be seen in the movie; including Natalia Avelon as young Uschi, Anke Engelke and Philipp Krause as parents of Abahachi and Winnetouch, Herbert Feuerstein as photographer and Roland Künzel as teacher at Kiowas High School.
In addition to his roles as Abahachi and Winnetouch, Herbig also appeared as their grandfather Grauer Star, who is reminiscent of Elvis Presley . When he was dying after an unfortunate stage diving , he bequeathed Abahachi the treasure map that led to Manitou's shoe. Abahachi then divides them between himself, Winnetouch, Uschi and Dimitri. In addition, it is shown how Ranger Abahachi saves life: At an open level crossing, he saved it from an approaching train. The two then form blood brotherhood.
Music deviations from the cinema version
In the VHS and DVD releases and the extra-large TV version of the film, the music used in some cases was different from the theatrical version for copyright reasons. After Ralph Siegel found similarities with his 1982 Winnetou musical, the main theme of the film was rewritten. Also for legal reasons, the song “Baby Keep Smiling” by Lou Bega in the credits of the film was replaced by the song “No Money 2 Live” intoned by Rick Kavanian.
production
The film was shot in the early summer of 2000 in the southern Spanish desert and in the Arri studios in Munich . Bully Herbig said “the big compromise would have been Yugoslavia, but that wasn't Western for me. I would have loved to film in America. I really looked everywhere, South Africa, Australia, Morocco, and at some point we landed on the sacred ground of Sergio Leone . I flew there, looked at it and said - that's it, one hundred percent. ”Thus, all the exterior and cave shots, as well as some of the interior shots of the film, were taken in the Western studios of Mini Hollywood / Oasys ⊙ in the Tabernas desert near the Andalusian Almería shot in southern Spain. Some of the interior shots were shot in the studio sets of the Munich ARRI studios following the shooting in Spain. The last trap fell there on June 19, 2000. The production costs amounted to 9 million German marks.
reception
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judged the comedy as a “true-to-style parody of the Karl May films of the 1960s, carefully modeled right down to the technical details, which appeals as an absolutely pointless number revue and does not shy away from platitude and foulness, superficially silly to entertain. The mechanics of the old cinema clichés are only being decoupled in order to spread the new clichés of the current gag culture. "
The accuracy with which stylistic elements of the Karl May films and spaghetti westerns are recorded and implemented is generally emphasized. The individual gags, however, are mostly characterized as idiots of mediocre quality, the acting performances are classified as low with a few exceptions.
According to Spiegel Online , Herbig "seems to have trusted that the Winnetou sketches of his TV show Bullyparade would spark off on the big screen, but this is not always the case". Spiegel Online considers the achievements of Sky Du Mont to be the most outstanding of the film - the acting skills of the other actors are "below average". Nevertheless, the online magazine praised Herbig's “very professional” staging.
Pierre Brice , the main actor in the Karl May films, and his East German counterpart Gojko Mitić rejected the comedy on the grounds that it denigrated the culture of the North American Indians and made it ridiculous. Nevertheless, Brice praised Michael Herbig's good work as a director.
The television magazine prisma judges the film as "irrelevant" and says: "The title characters speak Bavarian, are stupid and have stupid puns underground that can hardly be beaten."
The weekly magazine Stern rated the film in January 2009 as a " blockbuster whose only funny element is an ultra-gay Indian".
Box office success
The film Der Schuh des Manitu opened in German cinemas on July 13, 2001, had around 12 million viewers and grossed over 65 million euros. In Austria, the German blockbuster became the most successful film to date with 1.78 million admissions. With these revenues, the film, which stayed in the cinema top 10 for 27 weeks, set a new record. The shooting costs amounted to 4.5 million euros. An estimated 9 million euros flowed back to Herbig. Almost exactly one year after its first release, the film was released a second time in a somewhat extended, so-called extra-large version . For this purpose, the DVDs that had already appeared in the video stores were ordered back.
Manitu's shoe is currently number 1 on the list of the most successful German films in Germany since the beginning of the official audience count in 1968, although the GDR is not included in these statistics for the times of the German separation . Including the GDR, Otto - The Film is in first place in the ranking with 14.5 million viewers (8.8 million in the Federal Republic and 5.7 million in the GDR).
Awards
- 2001
- Bambi in the Film National category
- Porcelain lion from the Bavarian State Chancellery in the most successful film category
- German Comedy Award in the Best Film category
- Box Office Germany Award : Bogey in platinum (for 5 million moviegoers in 50 days)
- Box Office Germany Award: Titan Bogey (special award for success in Austria )
- Golden screen (3 million viewers)
- Golden screen with a star (6 million viewers)
- Golden screen with 2 stars (9 million viewers)
- NEO (German Internet Award) in the Best Film Site category for www.schuh-des-manitu.de
- 2002
- German Film Prize in the Special Jury Prize category
- German film award in the audience award category
- Bavarian film award in the audience award category for the most popular film
- Bavarian Film Prize in the category Special Prize from the Prime Minister to Michael Herbig for his performance as a director
- Jupiter in the Best German Film category
- DVD Champion in the Best DVD Production category
- 2003
- DIVA Award in the audience award category
- DIVA Award in the DVD and VHS rental category
- Euregio Film Prize of the Aachener Zeitung in the category most successful film in the Cinetower
musical
On December 7, 2008, a musical version premiered in the Theater des Westens in Berlin , which was performed until May 30, 2010.
various
- In the film, the title Straight to Hell by the power metal band Rage is alluded to. Some excerpts were used for the music video for the title.
- Ecco Meineke sang all male voices for the vocal interludes, including the choirs.
See also
Web links
- Manitou's Shoe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manitou's shoe in the online film database
- “Winnetouch on the Puder-Rosa-Ranch” ( memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) by Andreas Stock in the Bieler Tagblatt
- Interview with Michael Herbig ( memento from November 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) on epilog.de
- Comparison of the cut versions theatrical version - Extra Large of Der Schuh des Manitu at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Shoe of Manitu . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 87 923-a V).
- ↑ Age rating for Der Schuh des Manitu . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Where the Shoshone live beautifully. In: Rhein-Zeitung . July 16, 2001, accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Film music: Anger over the groove of the Manitu. In: Spiegel Online . August 24, 2001. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Music and action spectacle "Winnetou" with Pierre Brice - Winnetou tour ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pierrebrice.de, accessed on September 11, 2013.
- ↑ Alternate Versions . International Movie Database. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
- ↑ The Shoe of Manitu - Production Notes ( Memento January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: bullybase.de .
- ↑ Joachim Kronsbein: Hugh and Huch. In: Spiegel Online . July 30, 2001, accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Manitou's Shoe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel : Manitus Resterampe. In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2017. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Manitou's Shoe . In: prisma , accessed on January 24, 2009.
- Jump up ↑ Dirk Benninghoff: And in the end, it always wins. In: Stern . January 21, 2011, accessed January 11, 2018 .
- ↑ The Truth About "Manitou's Shoe" . In: InsideKino . June 23, 2010.
