Don Juan's love affairs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Don Juan's love affairs |
| Original title | Adventures of Don Juan |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vincent Sherman |
| script |
George Oppenheimer , Harry Kurnitz |
| production | Jerry Woods |
| music | Max Steiner |
| camera | Elwood Bredell |
| cut | Alan Crosland Jr. |
| occupation | |
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The love adventures of Don Juan (original title: Adventures of Don Juan ) is an American coat-and-sword film with Errol Flynn from 1948. It was based on a story by Herbert Dalmas .
action
The Spanish nobleman Don Juan de Maraña had one love affair after another in England in the 16th century. When he starts an affair with Lady Diana, the fiancé of a Spanish count, he is arrested in the face of the threatening scandal and forced to return to Spain with his servant Leporello . Before he set off, however, the Spanish ambassador, Count de Polan, asked him to see to it at the royal court in Madrid that a war between Spain and England was prevented.
Shortly after their arrival on the Iberian Peninsula , Don Juan and Leporello witness how Duke de Lorca's troops terrorize the inhabitants of a village. Don Juan can drive the soldiers away in battle and is then celebrated as a hero. When he receives an audience with Queen Margaret , he is reprimanded by her for having made the politically important marriage between Lady Diana and the Spanish Count impossible. Despite his bad reputation as a womanizer, she is still ready to appoint him head of the royal fencing academy.
Don Juan is the queen and her weak husband, King Philip III. always loyal to your service. When he one day confesses his love to the queen, she firmly rejects him. Don Juan then seeks consolation from other women. However, his amorous adventures prompt the king, who is under de Lorca's influence, to send don Juan into exile in the New World .
When don Juan discovers that de Lorca is planning an intrigue against the king in order to seize power himself and declare war on England, he visits the queen and tells her about de Lorca's plans. De Lorca, in turn, has don Juan arrested and taken to a fortress where he plans to have him executed. However, Leporello is able to help his master to escape, whereupon they together free Count de Polan, whom the duke had captured and tortured. While the students of the fencing academy defeat de Lorca's men, don Juan puts the duke in a duel, defeats him and can thwart his plans. Queen Margaret then confesses her love to don Juan. But for the good of Spain, Don Juan leaves his homeland again with a heavy heart.
background
The Warner Brothers film was actually supposed to be shot in 1945 under the direction of Raoul Walsh . Erich Wolfgang Korngold , who had set Errol Flynn's greatest successes to music, was to be the composer. But when lead actor Flynn dropped out with Walsh, the project was stopped. When filming started again in 1947, Michael Curtiz was supposed to take over the direction. However, he also got into a conflict with Flynn and was then replaced with Jean Negulesco . He suddenly got out, whereupon Vincent Sherman was hired as a director at Flynn's request. Max Steiner, in turn, replaced Korngold as composer.
Filming finally took place from October 14, 1947 to mid-April 1948. Since Flynn was sick several times, the shooting had to be interrupted again and again. He was also often doubled in action scenes. For the film, which cost Warner about two million dollars, 113 sets and more than 5200 costumes were made. 15 dresses were specially designed for Viveca Lindfors .
The film was the 13th and last collaboration between Errol Flynn and his fellow actor and friend Alan Hale , who starred alongside Flynn in Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (1938) as Little John. Hale died just over a year after the adventure film was released, which premiered on December 1, 1948 in the United States , but flopped at the box office despite good reviews. On January 30, 1951, the film was also shown in German cinemas.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , The Love Adventure of Don Juan was "an elaborate and lively colorful coat-and-sword film that portrays the much-sung erotomaniac in a subtle and glorifying way". Prisma found that "the classic heartbreaker" was one of Errol Flynn's "star roles". The film, a “lively adventure”, comes “from the time when Technicolor colors were still really used in the cinema”.
Even Variety said that the role of Don Juan Errol Flynn passe and that they have played convincing. Viveca Lindfors is also "irresistibly beautiful" as Queen. According to Bosley Crowther of the New York Times , it is "a great adventure story" that is similar to "chaste like Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds ". The sets and costumes are "exquisite" and the lighting and camera work are "technically first class". Errol Flynn plays the romantic hero as he had played him "a dozen times" before: "gallant, classy, exemplary and also a bit funny". The film critic Leonard Maltin described the film in retrospect as a "stately, tongue-in-cheek coat-and-sword film".
Awards
At the 1950 Academy Awards , the film's costumes, for which Leah Rhodes , William Travilla and Marjorie Best were responsible, were awarded the Oscar for Best Costume Design . There was another nomination in the category Best Production Design , in which the film architects Edward Carrere and Lyle B. Reifsnider could not prevail against the production design of the literary film adaptation Little Brave Jo .
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1950 by Ultra Film Synchron GmbH Munich. Josef Wolf directed the dubbing based on the dialogue book by Erika Streithorst .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Don Juan de Maraña | Errol Flynn | Hans Nielsen |
| Queen Margaret | Viveca Lindfors | Eva Vaitl |
| Duke de Lorca | Robert Douglas | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer |
| Leporello | Alan Hale | Bum Kruger |
| Donna Elena | Ann Rutherford | Tina Eilers |
| Don José, Count de Polan | Robert Warwick | Walter Holten |
| Don Sebastian | Jerry Austin | Anton Reimer |
| Don Rodrigo | Douglas Kennedy | Wolfgang Preiss |
| Don Serafino Lopez | Fortunio Bonanova | Hans Pössenbacher |
| Duenna | Una O'Connor | Gertrud Spalke |
| Captain Alvarez | Raymond Burr | Wolfgang Eichberger |
Web links
- Adventures of Don Juan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Adventures of Don Juan at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Adventures of Don Juan in All Movie Guide (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Frank Miller on tcm.com
- ↑ cf. Notes on tcm.com
- ↑ The Amorous Adventures of Don Juan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 7, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ "Viveca Lindfors co-stars as the queen and she brings a compelling beauty to the role." See Adventures of Don Juan . In: Variety , 1948.
- ↑ “[T] his picture […] is a great big adventure thriller, quite as innocent as The Adventures of Robin Hood . […] The sets and costumes are exquisite […]. And the lighting and color photography are technically superb. [...] He acts the romantic knight-errant as he has done a dozen times before - gallantly, nobly, ideally and just a bit laughably, too. " Bosley Crowther : 'Adventures of Don Juan,' With Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Has Premiere at Strand . In: The New York Times , December 25, 1948.
- ↑ "Handsome tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler." Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide . Penguin Books, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-525-53631-4 , p. 10.
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de