The last Knight Templar
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The last Knight Templar |
| Original title | Season of the Witch |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominic Sena |
| script | Bragi Schut Jr. |
| production |
Alex Gartner , Charles Roven |
| music | Atli Örvarsson |
| camera | Amir M. Mokri |
| cut |
Mark Helfrich , Dan Zimmerman , Bob Ducsay |
| occupation | |
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Season of the Witch is an American mystery - adventure film directed by Dominic Sena from 2011 with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman in the lead roles. In Germany the film was released by Universum Film and Wild Bunch Germany. It should not be confused with the film Outcast, set in ancient China , in which Nicolas Cage also plays the role of a former crusader.
action
In 1344, the crusader of the Teutonic Order Behmen von Bleibruck felt a remorse that he was also to blame for the deaths of women and children when attacking Smyrna. With his friend Felson, he returns to the army back and in one of the plague stricken Europe back. In Marburg an der Drau , Behmen von Bleibruck and Felson are identified as deserters and brought to Cardinal d'Ambroise. The cardinal, who is also languishing with the plague, offers them their freedom when they take a young girl accused of witchcraft and held responsible for the plague to a distant monastery, where her guilt is found and her curse by a mysterious one Ritual should be ended. Behmen initially refuses, but then agrees if the accused receives a fair trial. The crusaders are accompanied by the priest Debelzaq, who is convinced of the woman's guilt, the knight Johann Eckhart, who mourns his family who died of the plague, and the crook Hagamar, who is supposed to lead the group on the way to the monastery. Somewhat reluctantly, the crusaders also accept Kay von Wollenbarth, a young acolyte of the cardinal who wants to prove himself as a knight.
One night the girl who was being transported in a cage wagon overwhelmed Debelzaq, who was keeping watch, and escaped to a nearby village, where the group followed her. However, Eckhart chases after his daughter's illusions and runs into Kay's sword in the dark. This blames himself, but Debelzaq sees the prisoner as the guilty party. They then cross a dilapidated suspension bridge, with the girl showing supernatural powers as she uses one hand to save Kay from falling. Then they end up in the misty forest of Wormwood. Here Hagamar wants to get rid of the girl, but is prevented by Behmen and then torn to pieces by the attacking wolves who were apparently summoned by the prisoner. Getting angry about this, Behmen now wants to kill the girl too, but Debelzaq and then Felson confront him. Felson points out that the monastery is already in sight.
However, the monastery was also ravaged by the plague, so that the tour group only found corpses. However, they find the Key of Solomon , a mysterious book full of incantations to ward off evil, and Debelzaq begins the ritual to end the curse. Now it is revealed that the girl is possessed by a demon who pretended to be a witch in the form of the girl in order to get into the monastery, destroy the last copy of the book and then unhindered to plunge the world into darkness. The demon melts his cage and hides in the monastery, where he resuscitates the corpses of the monks and lets them fight against Behmen, Felson and Kay, who was knighted shortly before. The demon breaks the neck of Debelzaq, who reads the incantation ritual against demons aloud, and burns Felson to ashes. Behmen fixes the demon's wings on a wall with two knives and can prevent further fatal attacks, but not that the demon sticks into his body with his wing claws. Kay reads the ritual to the end and the demon burns up, but Behmen dies from his wounds. Kay and the demon freed girl Anna bury their fallen friends and ride away with the book. Anna wants to tell the world the story.
Production and publication
Most of the filming took place in the Austrian Alps (in the state of Salzburg , in the Hallein district , in Sankt Koloman , on the Loser in Altaussee, Styria) and in Croatia. The Kreuzenstein Castle , which also serves as the film both as a residence of Cardinal as a backdrop for the courtyard and interiors of the monastery is located near Vienna . Further sets were set up in a studio in Hungary .
The film premiered on January 4, 2011 in the USA. In Germany it ran in cinemas from March 24, 2011.
Reviews
The last Knights Templar received mostly negative reviews. According to the film website Rotten Tomatoes , only 8% of the film critics rated the film positively, based on 106 reviews.
"Season of the Witch is a horror film that is not scary, an action movie whose effects appear after an early computer game, and not least a historical film, which waived so consistently in history that one he did not even Klitterung can blame them."
“[Sena succeeds] in capturing the inhospitable atmosphere of the time, but he doesn't seem to have developed a real feeling for the life back then: Instead of understanding the witch hunts […] as the result of a power-political calculation and religious madness, he sets he prefers a supernatural, moderately animated stall magic. The really exciting question of whether the woman escorted by the knights is really a witch or not is resolved in a hurry. And ultimately only serves as a prelude to a fantasy finale on a B-movie level. Conclusion: Atmospheric adventure flick that counteracts the complex subject of witch chase with horror film clichés. "
“All of this would have been easier to forgive if Dominic Sena had staged the film for what it is: ultimately harmless, not very original, but sometimes brutal trash with no deeper meaning or great ambitions. The fact that "The Last Knight Templar" instead comes across as a serious fantasy adventure may sound exciting at first, but in the end it just creates an involuntary comedy. "
Awards
Nicolas Cage was nominated for the Golden Raspberry as worst actor in 2012 for this role and his performance in Trespass and Drive Angry .
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by the company RC Production .
| actor | Dubbing voice | role |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Cage | Martin Keßler | Take |
| Ron Perlman | Tilo Schmitz | Felson |
| Christopher Lee | Otto Mellies | Cardinal D'Ambroise |
| Ulrich Thomsen | Frank Röth | Eckhart |
| Claire Foy | Sarah Riedel | The girl |
| Stephen Campbell Moore | Alexander Brem | Debelzaq |
| Brian F. O'Byrne | Erich Rauker | Grandmaster |
| Stephen Graham | Oliver Mink | Hagamar |
| Robert Sheehan | Robin Kahnmeyer | Kay |
| Maria Koschny | blonde witch | |
| Tobias Kluckert | demon |
Web links
- Season of the Witch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Season of the Witch at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ The last Knight Templar on kino.de
- ↑ Age rating for The Last Knight Templar . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes , accessed March 28, 2011.
- ↑ Slam as hell . In: Die Zeit , accessed on March 28, 2011.
- ↑ The last Knight Templar on cinema.de
- ↑ The last Knight Templar on filmstarts.de
- ↑ The last Knight Templar in the German synchronized file , accessed on April 25, 2013.