Akbar the tiger
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Akbar the tiger |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script | Harry Piel William Quindt based on his own novel |
| production | Harry Piel for Ariel film Harry Piel, Wiesbaden |
| music | Fritz Wenneis |
| camera |
Klaus von Rautenfeld Bruno Timm |
| cut | Hildegard Grebner |
| occupation | |
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The Tiger Akbar is a German feature film by and with Harry Piel from 1951.
action
Tamer Jonny Wilken has been in the circus business for a long time, he has seen ups and downs. His old heart, however, gets young again when he meets the blonde trainer Jutta Saris, who has built up her own tiger act. The two gradually come closer to each other through their profession and their respect for their achievements as a predator tamer. But then a terrible accident occurs.
Jutta's favorite tiger, Akbar, becomes jealous of his mistress because of Jonny's too close proximity and, on the day of the marriage, of all times, leaps over Jutta. The big cat's weight crushes her so much that Jutta dies a little later from the bruises she has suffered. Completely beside himself with anger and the pain of loss, Jonny throws himself into the tiger cage and wants to strangle Akbar with his own hands. But then something completely unexpected happens: Akbar rolls onto the floor and shows a gesture of submission. Jonny, deeply impressed, abandons the basically benign animal and renounces his revenge.
Production notes
The Tiger Akbar was Harry Piel's last feature film. Filming began in October 1950 and dragged on into the first few weeks of 1951. At this point, Piel's health, which had not been able to bring a film to the cinemas since the premiere of his last completed film at the end of 1938, had deteriorated markedly.
The first performance of The Tiger Akbar took place on April 19, 1951 in the Turm-Palast in Frankfurt am Main , on May 8, 1951 the Berlin premiere was. Six months later, the strip was also shown in GDR cinemas. In 1958 the film, heavily shortened, came back to German cinemas under the title Panik im Zirkus Williams .
The film structures were made by Karl Vollbrecht and Alfred Bütow , the sound was provided by Bruno Suckau .
Reviews
The film critics saw in Der Tiger Akbar a sad swan song for the German genre of adventure and sensational films with animals, which was once launched by Piel and brought to its peak.
In the lexicon of international films , it says: "Apart from a few successful dressage shots, it is a disappointingly weak and lackluster circus film, whose melodramatic moments get bogged down."
Another critic analyzed the reasons for the failure: "The silent film naivety that reigns here, the absurdly striking childishness with which the film is made, has something so museum-like disarming that nobody was really bad."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Lafontaine directed the dialogue
- ↑ The Tiger Akbar in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 25, 2013.
- ↑ Criticism in logbuchliteratur.de ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- The Tiger Akbar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The tiger Akbar at filmportal.de