The bandits from the Rio Grande
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The bandits from the Rio Grande |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Helmuth M. Backhaus |
| script | Helmuth M. Backhaus (as Gregor Trass) |
| production | Piran-Film + Televisions GmbH (Egon Haebe) |
| music | Christian Bruhn |
| camera | Manfred Ensinger |
| cut | Anneliese Artelt |
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Die Banditen vom Rio Grande is a German adventure film by director Helmuth M. Backhaus . The color film shot in Ultrascope premiered on April 23, 1965.
content
Three young teachers, Helen, Joan and Lida, who were transferred to a Mexican village, are kidnapped and harassed by bandits. The gang leader Barran is prevented from going to extremes by his personal doctor Ryan, who sympathizes with the women.
History of origin
The Piran-Film + Televisions GmbH, founded in 1961 by the Stuttgart entrepreneur Egon Haebe, tried with this film to follow up on the successes of the Karl May films and spaghetti westerns popular in the mid-1960s .
The shooting was done in Yugoslavia , for example on the Zrmanja near Obrovac . The studio recordings were made in the Centralni Filmski Studio Kosutnjak in Belgrade . The film architect Nino Borghi was responsible for the production design . Ingrid Neugebauer designed the costumes . Manfred Ensinger acted as cameraman . Production manager was Eva Rosskopf. Reinhardt Ernst directed the action scenes.
reception
publication
The film industry's voluntary self-regulation released the film on April 23, 1965, without a public holiday permit for those aged 16 and over. The premiere took place on the same day.
Although Piran-Film had announced the production of more films for 1965 and 1966, The Bandits of the Rio Grande was the company's last production. After the company had been marketing its films itself since 1963 without having the professionalism of large film distributors such as Gloria- or Constantin-Film , the company got increasingly into financial difficulties. Since the comparatively elaborate work Die Banditen vom Rio Grande did not earn its production costs, Piran-Film had to stop production in early 1965.
criticism
The lexicon of international film concludes: “ Simple-minded adventure film based on a model ”. The Protestant film observer is also not exactly enthusiastic : “A lurid German infusion of a crooked concentrate from the famous Brazilian robber ballad “ O Cangaceiro ” . Possible for adults without any recommendation. "
Web links
- The bandits from the Rio Grande in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bandits from the Rio Grande at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 .
- ↑ The Bandits of the Rio Grande. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 204/1965