The slave caravan (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The slave caravan |
| Original title | The slave caravan Caravana de esclavos |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Georg Marischka (German version) Ramón Torrado (Spanish version) |
| script |
Kurt Heuser Georg Marischka |
| production | DCF Documentary and Color Film H. Neubert KG, Munich Jesús Sáiz |
| music | Ulrich Sommerlatte ; Emilio Lviv |
| camera | Alfredo Fraile |
| cut |
Gaby Peñalba Claus from Boro |
| occupation | |
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Die Sklavenkarawane is a film by Georg Marischka based on motifs by Karl May ( Karl May film ). It was the first Karl May film in color. However, the script has not left much of the original novel , in which Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar do not even appear. The main roles are occupied by Viktor Staal and Georg Thomalla as well as Theo Lingen , Fernando Sancho and Mara Cruz .
The premiere of the film took place on December 11, 1958 in the "Europa-Palast" in Düsseldorf . The film was shown under the title Caravana de esclavos in co-producing country Spain . The direction was there with Ramón Torrado .
action
The German world traveler Kara Ben Nemsi fights with his Arab companion Hajji Halef Omar from the Haddedihn tribe on the Upper Nile against the slavers of the dreaded Abu el Mot. You have joined a caravan but are ambushed and captured.
Kara and Halef manage to escape. You reach the Nile and get to Faschoda . There Kara frees the girl Senitza from a harem and is reinforced by the slave Hamid. Hamid is actually a kidnapped prince's son who wants to make Senitza his wife.
When Abu el Mot is cornered, he takes the beautiful Senitza and Hamid as hostages on the run. In the native village of Omballa he can also capture Kara, who is saved by Halef.
Kara Ben Nemsi can free Senitza and render Abu el Mot harmless. Together with his friend Halef he rides towards new adventures.
background
The Munich film company Bavaria originally wanted to film the novel, and author Kurt Heuser wrote a screenplay for it. With the commitment to take over the rental and to pre- finance part of the production costs with bills , the group sold the rights to Heinz Neubert's small Munich production company DCF. Georg Marischka revised Heuser's script and submitted his work in April 1958.
The original plan to shoot on location has been abandoned, so most of the film was shot near Madrid . The Spanish producer Jesus Saiz received the exploitation rights for the film for Spain and the Spanish-speaking areas of South America.
In mid-July 1958, filming began with interior shots in Hall 5 of the Seville Studios. Right at the beginning there was an accident when Rafael Luis Calvos' middle finger tendon was cut through in a fencing scene and had to be sewn. The native village of Omballa was built on the Tagus near Aranjuez . At the beginning of October, the 23-year-old actor Joseph Albert von Rempert had a fatal accident. He was supposed to simulate falling into a ravine and fractured the base of the skull and spine. On November 20th, several weeks later than planned, filming was finished.
At a premiere in the Stachus-Filmpalast in Munich on January 8, 1959, there was a scandal. Georg Thomalla introduced his colleagues and named Mara Cruz first as agreed. 60 seconds after the announcement began, Viktor Staal left the cinema with no explanation. Staal was absent from the other big city premieres from the start. During the appearance in the Ufa pavilion in Berlin , Thomalla spent ten minutes just introducing Mara Cruz.
At the box office, the slave caravan ran with satisfactory success, so a sequel was decided, which then appeared as The Lion of Babylon .
synchronization
Due to the large number of Spanish actors, dubbing was necessary for the German version:
| role | actor | voice |
|---|---|---|
| Kara Ben Nemsi | Viktor Staal | Viktor Staal |
| Hajji Halef Omar | Georg Thomalla | Georg Thomalla |
| Sir David Lindsay | Theo Lingen | Theo Lingen |
| Senitza | Mara Cruz | Rosemarie Fendel |
| Abu el Mot | José Guardiola | Helmo Kindermann |
| Murat Ibrahim | Rafael Luis Calvo | Wolf Ackva |
| Hamid | Julio Nuñez | Kurt E. Ludwig |
| Mudir from Fashodah | Antonio Casas | Ernst Constantine |
| sheikh | José Manuel Martín | Werner Lieven |
Award
- Predicate "valuable" the Film Review Board .
Others
The film was broadcast as the second Karl May film on November 28 and December 5, 1965 on German television in the ARD program in black and white, as there was no color television yet, after its successor " The Lion of Babylon ".
The actor of Prof. Pfotenhauer , Fernando Sancho , also played in the film adaptations of the 1960s in the films Durchs Wilde Kurdistan and Im Reiche des Silber Löwen , but then rose as "Padischa".
The film holds the record as the Karl May film, of which there are the most Super8 excerpts.
Reviews
"Colorful and youthful, but more star fun than adventure film, so that the memory of Karl May is hardly confirmed."
"More gossip than adventure."
media
literature
- Karl May - Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 41, Die Sklavenkarawane , Karl-May-Verlag, ISBN 3-7802-0041-4
- Michael Petzel: Karl-May Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag (1998) - ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , pp. 75ff.
- Michael Petzel: Karl May Filmbuch , Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, second expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4
Soundtrack
- Wild West - Hot Orient - Karl May Film Music 1936–1968 - Bear Family Records BCD 16413 HL - 8 CDs with 192 pages of film book
Web links
- The slave caravan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook V of the Catholic Film Critics, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 399
- ↑ (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 752