The blue-eyed bandit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The blue-eyed bandit |
| Original title | Barbagia (La società del malessere) |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 101 (German v. 83) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlo Lizzani |
| script | Carlo Lizzani Dino Maiuri Massimo De Rita Augusto Caminito Antonio Troisio |
| production | Dino De Laurentiis |
| music | Don Backy |
| camera | Michele Cristiani |
| cut | Franco Fraticelli |
| occupation | |
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The blue-eyed bandit (original title: Barbagia (La società del malessere) ) is an Italian film drama from 1969, which Carlo Lizzani directed with Terence Hill in the lead role. In the German-speaking area, the film was only released later, from February 1, 1974, and also in an abridged version, also under the title Verflucht in All Ewigkeit .
action
As is customary in Sardinia , the young shepherd Graziano Cassitta was brought up to preserve honor as the highest good. When he avenges the murder of his brother, he is sentenced to prison but is able to escape. With his escape companion Miguel Lopez, he takes refuge in the rugged mountains of Supramonte . Supported by the dishonest lawyer Spina, he builds a gang there and organizes kidnappings to extort ransom.
The police unsuccessfully search for Cassitta, who disguises his actions in a socially critical manner and thus becomes enormously popular and ultimately becomes a leader of a separatist movement. This makes him too powerful for Spina, who is now trying to get rid of him; Cassitta, blinded to success, makes a mistake when he kidnaps the average citizen Nino Benedetto. This act also brings parts of the population against him, whereupon his people question his leadership position.
The police attack the group; Miguel is killed in the process. Cassitta can flee once more; but shortly afterwards he is arrested.
criticism
C. Bertieri attested that the film took a careful look at a region of Italy that is far removed from the possibilities of life in areas close to industry; Tullio Kezich described the work of the neorealist Lizzani as "a convincing and useful pamphlet and an example of dramatized good journalism".
The German criticism was less enthusiastic. The marketing aimed at the popularity of Hills also aroused false expectations, in addition, the character of the film was changed with the synchronization. “The German version does its very best to let the film appear in a negative light. Hill's usual dubbing actor calms himself so annoyingly over the soundtrack that the tragically intended events lose their momentum, ”writes Karsten Thurau in the gangster film inventory Der Terror directs . The lexicon of international film comes to the end: “Thought as a mirror image of behaviors that result from social disparities. In the execution, however, a blend of rebel epic, semi-documentation and spaghetti westerns; the socially critical intentions of Lizzani are subordinated to the effects-oriented entertainment. "
Remarks
The script is based on the novel "La società del malessere" by Giuseppe Fiori .
Film songs are Ballate per una balente , sung by Don Backy, and Applausi , interpreted by the Camaleonti .
synchronization
- Narrator: Joachim Cadenbach
- Terence Hill: Thomas Danneberg
- Don Backy: Joachim Tennstedt
- Frank Wolff: Christian Rode
- Gabriele Tinti: Ronald Nitschke
- Ezio Sancrotti: Hans Nitschke
- Tano Cimarosa: Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Web links
- The blue-eyed bandit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ C. Bertieri, "Film Mese" No. 33, October 1969
- ↑ [quoted from http://www.comingsoon.it/Film/Scheda/Trama/?key=9032&film=La-societa-del-malessere comingsoon.it]
- ↑ Terrorverlag 1999, p. 26
- ↑ The blue-eyed bandit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ R. Poppi / M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film Vol. 3. Gremese 1992, p. 66