Dragonheart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dragonheart |
| Original title | Dragonheart |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rob Cohen |
| script |
Charles Edward Pogue , Patrick Read Johnson |
| production | Raffaella De Laurentiis |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | David Eggby |
| cut | Peter Amundson |
| occupation | |
| |
| chronology | |
|
Successor → |
|
Dragonheart is a fantasy film by director Rob Cohen from the year 1996 with Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis in the lead roles. The film opened in German cinemas on November 21, 1996.
action
The knight Bowen trains the young Prince Einon in sword fighting and teaches him the virtues of knighthood, which are expressed in the old oath . A short time later, the tyrannical king carries out a punitive expedition against a village and is ambushed by the oppressed. He is killed by the rebellious peasants; even before he dies, his son is already snatching the crown. A peasant girl collides with Einon; this falls into a sharpened stake and is seriously injured in the heart.
Before the young king dies, his mother, Queen Aislinn, a devotee of the dragon cult, takes him to a dragon cave, where a dragon saves the life of Einon by donating half of his heart to him. The dragon only makes this sacrifice after Bowen has assured him of the virtue of his pupil.
Einon turns into an even more cruel tyrant than his father was. Added to this is his megalomania, which with his efforts to even surpass the splendor of the Roman Empire, demands inhuman things from his subjects. Bowen, realizing this, suspects the dragon of hexing the boy and swears to kill him.
Years later, the monk Gilbert von Glockenspur travels the kingdom and meets Bowen, who earns his living as a dragon slayer. Gilbert, looking for material for a heroic epic , joins Bowen, believing that he has found his main character in him when he sees him slay a dragon.
The next hunt for a dragon that Bowen wants to kill, there are problems: The dragon turns out to be an equal opponent even for Bowen, who has meanwhile proven himself as a dragon slayer. A stalemate ensues when Bowen - trapped in the dragon's mouth - positions his sword so that the dragon would kill itself if it bite. After a long conversation that turns out to be the last dragon alive, Bowen and the dragon agree on an alternative to killing each other and work together. Draco and Bowen form an alliance of convenience: Bowen "defeats" the dragon in exhibition fights and collects the premium for the "slain" dragon from the people or their liege lords. Gilbert continues to try his poetry about Bowen and Draco - but without knowing how the last fight, of which he could only observe the beginning, ended, and without knowing anything about this alliance.
In the conversation between Bowen and the dragon it becomes clear to the viewer through a parallel action shown that half the heart of the dragon in Einon connects this with this dragon, but the dragon does not reveal himself to Bowen as the donor of half the heart. In addition, the dragon, whose real name cannot be pronounced by any human being, is given the name "Draco" from Bowen after the Latin name of the constellation Dragon .
After a while, Bowen meets Kara, the girl from prehistory who has become an attractive woman. Kara tries to persuade Bowen to instigate an uprising against his former student, but the latter categorically refuses. After a failed exhibition match, Draco flies to Avalon with Bowen, Kara and Gilbert, who joins them during the exhibition match. In the rain, Bowen hears King Arthur's voice reciting the old vow and he becomes aware of his old ideals again. Draco reveals himself as the dragon who saved Einon's life. His motive was to renew the dragon's promise to take care of the people in order to re-establish the bond between the people and the dragons and through this good deed to get into the constellation of the dragon, its stars, after his death are the souls of dead dragons. Because of Einon's malevolence, however, this is now denied to him. After repeating the oath on Arthur's grave, Bowen is now ready to go to war against Einon and begins - back in the kingdom of Einon - to train peasants to become partisans, with Draco giving them psychological (and military) support as a miracle weapon chase the king and his army out of the castle.
In the following conflict, the rebels manage to fatally hit Einon with an arrow, but Einon simply pulls the bullet out of the wound and lives on, whereas Draco falls seriously wounded from the sky and is captured. Einon realizes that his life is related to that of the dragon and has it guarded and kept alive in captivity in order to be immortal. Bowen succeeds in defeating Einon in the showdown, but he cannot kill him while Draco is alive. Queen Aislinn is caught and murdered by Einon while trying to kill the dragon. As a result, Draco tries to persuade Bowen (as the only one present) to kill him so that Einon and the evil in him can also die. The knight, however, refuses to kill his friend until the last moment; only at the last moment does Bowen arrive.
Through his sacrifice, Draco's soul is absorbed into the starry sky before the eyes of Bowen, Karas and Gilbert.
Sequels
There's a second part directed by Doug Lefler that was released in 2000. He is entitled Dragonheart - A New Beginning (English. A new Beginning ). On March 26, 2015, a second sequel entitled Dragonheart 3: Der Fluch Des Druiden ( The Sorcerer's Curse ) was published in Germany. In 2017 the third sequel was released with the title Dragonheart 4: Die Kraft des Feuers ( Battle for the Heartfire ). In February 2020 a fifth part was released with the title Dragonheart 5: Vengeance
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bowen | Dennis Quaid | Thomas Danneberg |
| King Einon | David Thewlis | Stefan Krause |
| Gilbert from Glockenspur | Pete Postlethwaite | Norbert Gescher |
| Kara | Dina Meyer | Daniela Hoffmann |
| Lord Felton | Jason Isaacs | Tobias Master |
| Prince Einon | Lee Oakes | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Queen Aislinn | Julie Christie | Rita Engelmann |
| King Freyne | Peter Hric | Jan Spitzer |
| Hewe | Wolf Christian | Stefan Fredrich |
| Brok | Brian Thompson | Wolfgang Kühne |
| Redbeard | Terry O'Neill | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Draco (voice) | Sean Connery | Mario Adorf |
background
Sean Connery not only lent Draco his voice, the computer-animated dragon's facial expressions were also transferred from Connery's face. In German, Mario Adorf dubbed Draco.
In the German version, the term " dragon " is confused with " dragon ".
The role of Draco has been re-dubbed for the DVD and Bluray versions. The speaker was again Mario Adorf, but the voice sounds much more muffled and can sometimes hardly be understood, which angered many fans.
criticism
"An atmospheric knight film and at the same time the happy revival of the fantasy genre with modern computer animation and a good dose of self-irony."
Awards
- In 1997 the film won the Saturn Award in the Best Fantasy Film category . He received a nomination in the categories of Best Costumes , Best Music and Best Special Effects .
- In 1997 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Special Effects .
- The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017). Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Dragonheart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Dragonheart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dragon Heart atrotten tomatoes(English)