The last safari
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| German title | The last safari |
| Original title | The Last Safari |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Henry Hathaway |
| script | John Gay |
| production | Henry Hathaway |
| music | John Dankworth |
| camera | Ted Moore |
| cut | John Blum |
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The Last Safari (Original Title: The Last Safari ) is a British adventure film from 1967 by Henry Hathaway . The script was written by John Gay . It is based on the novel "Gilligan's Last Elephant" by Gerald Hanley . Stewart Granger , Kaz Garas and Gabriella Licudi can be seen in the leading roles . The film was first released in November 1967 in the United States . It premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on June 14, 1968. The outdoor shots were made in the African state of Kenya .
action
The big game hunter Miles Gilchrist still comes from the "old school". He faces the animals alone, without a weapon or other aids. He risks his life in lonely marches through the steppe. Without this risk, the hunt would be nothing but brainless shooting for him. In protest against the increasing number of fully motorized safaris for tourists, he wants to give up the hunt - but only after one last safari: He still has a bill to settle with an elephant that once killed his best friend. This is what the hunter's morality wants.
A young American self-made millionaire arrives at this time of the adventure with his own jet jet to Africa, gets wind of Gilchrist and his intentions, whereupon he wants to participate in the planned company. The closed big game hunter, however, pushes him away because he wants to make it on his own. Soon he even gets rude to the American. The film then describes in detail the efforts of the unconventional young hunter to join the creaky old man. In the end, the youngster's persistence wins.
Gilchrist's last elephant is not killed by the two hunters. Because the psychologically experienced American has correctly recognized this: Gilchrist's last safari should only be his sole proprietorship because he was looking for death in this way, as a sacrifice of atonement for the friend who had once been trampled before his eyes and whom he had not been able to help. - Gilchrist and the elephant thus stay alive, and the American had nevertheless experienced the adventure he wanted.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer does not think much of the film: “The last safari of a solitary big game hunter consists mainly of the efforts of an American adventurer to join this safari. The hunter's mainly psychologically motivated behavior is not given a credible interpretation. Some beautiful animal shots do not make up for the very meager food. ”The lexicon of the international film, on the other hand, praises the beautiful animal and landscape images, but on the other hand criticizes the fact that the understanding of Africa shown comes from the colonial times.
Web links
- The last safari in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Five pictures from the film with a short review at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 355/1968, p. 364
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2226.