The False Prince (1985)

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Movie
German title The wrong prince
Original title Falešný princ
Country of production Czechoslovakia ,
Germany
Publishing year 1985
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Dušan Rapoš
script Jaroslav Dietl
production Dragoljub Vojnov
music Angelo Michajlov
camera Stanislav Szomolányi
cut Maximilián Remen
occupation
synchronization

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The false prince (original title: Falešný princ ) is a Czechoslovakian- German fairy tale film by the director Dušan Rapoš from 1985. The German premiere took place in two parts on April 7th and 8th 1985 on ZDF and in November 1986 in the GDR cinema .

The film was staged in collaboration between Omnia Film Munich and Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT) in elaborate oriental settings, the exterior shots were shot in Yugoslavia .

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In a small town in an unspecified oriental country there is a tailor shop. A number of journeymen work for the master, the oldest of them being the extremely talented but very lazy Labakan. One day a rich man appears and orders a new caftan , with which he wants to impress the Sultan at an audience the following day . In particular, the caftan should be made in such a way that it allows a large golden piece of jewelry that the rich man wears around his neck to stand out favorably.

The rich man explains to Labakan that the piece of jewelry is a good luck charm and at the same time a puzzle . Anyone who succeeds in unfolding the triangular piece of jewelry so that it takes on the shape of a palace would be very lucky and would one day live in a palace. However, neither he nor anyone else has yet been able to solve the puzzle of the puzzle. In addition to the piece of jewelry, the rich man hands Labakan a bag full of golden buttons that are to be sewn onto the caftan and demands that he be able to pick up the item of clothing in good time the next morning before his audience appointment.

Labakan begins work, but soon takes a break in which he dreams of a bright future. His master caught him doing it and forced him to work all night to get the caftan ready on time. One of Labakan's sewing needles miraculously comes to life during the night, speaks to him and tries to encourage him to work.

The next morning the caftan is ready, all the golden buttons are sewn on and Labakan pulls it over the sewing needle in protest, supposedly to see whether it fits properly. But he doesn't take it off again, and when his master calls him from outside, he quickly puts the piece of jewelry on, sticks the sewing needle on his lapel, puts on an impressive turban and secretly climbs out the window to go unnoticed in the alleys to disappear from the city.

With his elegant appearance, all the people he meets pay him their respects and Labakan is convinced that he now not only looks like a prince, but can also be one. By gradually tearing off the gold buttons from his caftan, he buys a saddle with them, a horse, but also worthless things or just attention, until he finally stops at an inn and has a royal dinner there. There he made the acquaintance of another young man, with whom he talked about the benefits of traveling without financial worries and who heroically stood by his side during a subsequent bar fight. When Labakan finally wants to rent a room for the night from the landlord and is also supposed to be responsible for the damage caused by the scuffle, he is surprised to find that he has already used up all the buttons on his caftan and that there is nothing left for him but to spend the night in the stable , as well as his new acquaintance.

They talk a little before going to bed and Omar, the other young man, tells Labakan that he is on his way to the place with the pillar el-Sarucha, where he has to meet someone on a certain date and where he is had to prove who he was with an artful dagger. Labakan assures him that he is his friend and that he does not know the place with the pillar, but when Omar is asleep, absent-mindedly he looks at the dagger again, finally takes it, saddles Omar's black horse with his saddle, puts Omar's speaking one Sewing needle (which had vainly criticized Labakan's actions) and quietly moves away during a thunderstorm.

The next day there is a large army at the place with the column, led by the Sultan. As Labakan approaches, he is arrested by the soldiers and dragged before the Sultan and the First Vizier . By showing the dagger and skillfully answering the questions asked, he can convince the sultan that he is the expected person and learn in turn that he is a missing prince. He can develop his piece of jewelry into a palace and is now convinced that his dreams will come true. Finally he hangs it on the sultan as a gift. The Sultan is entranced and when Omar appears on Labakan's horse, his explanations about the theft of the dagger are not listened to.Instead, he is mocked as a tailor by Labakan because of the sewing needle on his robe, arrested by the First Vizier and dragged after the army in chains.

Once at the palace, the Sultan introduces Labakan to his wife as their missing son Omar. After the prince's birth, there was a prophecy that the prince would be in great danger in the sultan's palace until he was 23 years old. He was then handed over to the loyal follower Elfi Bey, who took him with him to his country, raised him like his own son and trained him to be a skilled warrior. The dagger that Elfi Bey had been given as an identification mark was given to Omar on his 23rd birthday, along with instructions on where to take it. While the Sultana looks at Labakan, she cannot see any resemblance to her son in him, but when shortly afterwards the bound Omar can also enter the throne room in an unguarded moment, she recognizes him as her real son, because she had previously dreamed of him Has. However, the sultan is so convinced of his cunning and knowledge of human nature that he does not want to accept the objections and continues to regard Labakan as the prince. Omar is thrown into the dungeon.

The Sultan's family also includes a beautiful Circassian who was adopted as an orphan by the Sultan's couple and raised like a boy and who, now grown up, is promised as a bride to the prince when he returns. After a brief encounter in which she gave him water, she too felt drawn to the real Prince Omar. She tries to free him from the dungeon, but is surprised by Labakan. Labakan confesses his true origins to Omar, but insists on taking further advantage of fate. But at least he arranges for Omar to be released from dungeon. The sultana meanwhile secretly forges plans with the Circassian how the false prince could be exposed and the real prince rehabilitated. One task is to have them sew their own robes for the big celebration of the return of the prince. Labakan accepts the task without suspicion and tailors a wonderful robe, which he presents to the court on a mannequin. Omar's mannequin, on the other hand, has remained empty and when he is mocked by the sultan for this reason, he snatches a spear from a guard and throws it precisely into Labakan's mannequin to show that he is not a tailor but a warrior. The Sultan begins to doubt Labakan and announces that a further examination should resolve the matter.

Since, as has since become known, Elfi Bey died in a campaign shortly after Omar said goodbye, there is no one left who could identify the real prince. Now the Sultan consults with his viziers just as secretly as the real prince could be recognized with a final test. The Circassian, disguised as a man, sneaked into the deliberations unrecognized, but she too cannot give the sultana any more precise information about the upcoming test, except that the sultan will have two identical boxes made, each of which should contain an item that points to the Closes the nature of whoever opens the box. There should be a silver inscription on each box, which indicates the content. The Circassian now tries to find out from the sultan's silversmith what will be on the box in order to inform Omar secretly, but this project fails because the silversmith is not in on the secret and the sultan himself will add the inscriptions . When the Circassian returns from the silversmith, murderers hired by the First Vizier lie in wait for her. She can keep them at bay with difficulty, when Omar notices the incident, he rushes to her aid and defeats the captors.

On the day of the exam, the entire court is gathered around the two boxes in the throne room, the sultan learned to write extra for the occasion (but only as much as necessary) and labeled one box with "Happiness and Wealth" and the other with " Honor and glory". First, Labakan is called into the throne room, he decides what he has been looking for from the beginning, luck and fortune. Then Omar is brought in. He explains that in the last few days he has learned how ephemeral happiness and fortune are and that it is more important to preserve honor and fame even when all else is lost. When the boxes are opened after a prayer, there are tailor's scissors in the box that Labakan has chosen and the speaking sewing needle appears underneath. In the box that Omar chose is the ornate dagger.

The matter is finally settled, the Sultan realizes the mistake he had made earlier. Labakan is handed over to the executioner and the first vizier reads out the verdict: Both hands on the execution block are to be chopped off because of the theft of the dagger, dishonor of the real prince and abuse of trust by the sultan. He is frightened and complains that he will then no longer be able to earn a living by sewing. When the executioner is already swinging his ax, Omar steps forward and stops him. He declares that the pride of his sex is the motto: "Loyalty to the friend, generosity to the enemy" and thus pardons Labakan. The sultan gives him back his gift and he has to leave the sultan's palace in disgrace and disgrace. Omar and the Circassian are engaged by the Sultan, they celebrate their wedding soon afterwards and set sail on board a sailing ship for their honeymoon.

Labakan is back in his master's tailoring workshop with the speaking sewing needle and has apparently returned clean from this whole affair, because he wants to look for happiness in his hands in the future. But, is this really the truth? Because again, under the protest of his sewing needle, he pulls on the noble caftan of a customer, secretly climbs out of the window and disappears into the streets of the city ...

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The plot loosely based on the presentation of the tale of the wrong prince of Wilhelm Hauff .

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