Through the desert (film)

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Movie
Original title Through the dessert
Through the desert Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1936
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
script Carl Junghans
production Lothar Stark film
music Gottfried Huppertz
camera Georg Muschner
Paul Rischke
cut Walter von Bonhorst
occupation

Through the desert is a German feature film by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla from 1936 based on the novel of the same name by Karl May ( Karl May film ). The first Karl May sound film was through the desert . Fred Raupach can be seen in the lead role as Kara Ben Nemsi.

action

On their way through the desert to the holy city of El Azar, Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar come across the remains of someone murdered by the criminal Abu Seif. Kara Ben Nemsi decides to expose the killer. After successfully escaping a trap in the great salt lakes, he disguises himself as a doctor and his reputation penetrates as far as the rich Ibrahim Mamur, whose favorite wife Senitza is seriously ill.

Arriving at Mamur, however, Kara discovers that he is none other than the criminal Abu Seif, who also stole Senitza from Halef's friend Sheikh Malek. Kara Ben Nemsi kidnaps Senitza again and brings her back to Sheikh Malek on a dangerous route, but is ambushed by Abu Seif on the sea and can only save herself with Halef on land during a storm.

During the onward journey through the desert, the only waterhole of Abu Seif was blown up and Kara and Halef are almost dying of thirst when they are found and rescued by Senitza at the last minute. The grateful Sheikh Malek gives Kara Ben Nemsi the Rappen Rih . Halef is now riding off with Malek's daughter Hanneh to fetch holy water from the city of El Azar, which Abu Seif Malek's tribe has so far denied. Kara Ben Nemsi secretly follows the two of them at night and also wants to sneak into the holy city, but is discovered by Senitza, who warns him of the dangers there as an unbeliever. Kara is promptly recognized in the city of Abu Seif and has to flee with Rih, where Senitza tries to distract the pursuers. In a rock valley, Kara can capture Abu Seif and takes him to the camp of Sheikh Malek's tribe. After Halef had Hanneh as his wife in thanks for the holy water, a judgment was held over Abu Seif, but Abu Seif's cronies invaded during the trial. Abu Seif manages to escape. During the persecution by Kara Ben Nemsi, Abu Seif flees to a swamp area, where the villain is killed during a saber fight. After Abu Seif's death, Kara Ben Nemsi and Halef set out on new adventures.

background

Filming of the crew of just 18 began in Egypt in mid-September 1935. The individual locations were 200 kilometers and more around Cairo . At the end of 1935 they returned to Germany and shot the studio recordings in Berlin-Johannisthal .

The film premiered on February 20, 1936 in the “Prinzes” cinema in Dresden . A short time after the premiere, the production company Lothar-Stark-Film filed for bankruptcy. A re-performance took place in September 2003 on the occasion of the Hanover Media Days (Media 21) in the Colosseum cinema there. The copy was made available by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation and lasted 88 minutes.

Previously planned TV broadcasts on Süddeutscher Rundfunk 1987 and ARTE 1997 were discarded because the quality was considered insufficient. In the 1960s there was an excerpt of the film on Super8 film.

criticism

“The lengthy prose is rich in flowers of oriental rhetoric, but poor in dramaturgically usable action. The fact that the film was shot on the spot helps over the greatest boredom. A curiosity that is certainly unintentional: Hajji Halef Omar sächselt. "

- film service , September 6, 1949

media

literature

  • Karl May - Collected Works, Volume 1: Through the desert . Karl-May-Verlag, ISBN 3-78020001-5
  • Karl May film book . Karl-May-Verlag 1998

DVD

  • In March 2011 the film was released with a running time of 85 minutes in the series “Treasures of German sound film” by Koch Media.

Soundtrack

  • Wild West - Hot Orient. Karl May film music 1936–1968 . Bear Family Records BCD 16413 HL - 8 CDs with a 192-page film book

See also

Web links

Works by Karl May


Early work (1875–1883)

The Book of Love  • Geographical sermons (in “ Schacht und Hütte ”) • The two Quitzow's last voyages  • Caught on the sea  • Scepter and hammer  • In the far west  • The Ranger  • The Jewel Island
Groups of shorter texts: adventure stories (including Old Firehand  • The Oil Prince ) • Erzgebirge village stories  • Stories about the old Dessauer  • Historical stories  • Humoresques

Colportage novels (1882–1888)

The forest rose  • The Uhlan's love  • The lost son  • German hearts - German heroes  • The way to happiness

Travel stories (1892–1899)

Through the desert and harem ( through the desert ) • Through wild Kurdistan  • From Baghdad to Stambul  • In the gorges of the Balkans  • Through the land of the Skipetaren  • The Schut  • Winnetou I – III  • Oranges and dates  • On the Pacific Ocean  • On the Rio de la Plata  • In the Cordillera  • Old Surehand I  • Old Surehand II  • In the land of the Mahdi I – III  • Old Surehand III  • Satan and Ischariot I – III  • On strange paths  • “Christmas!”  • In the realm of the silver lion I- II  • On the afterlife
special case: The rose of Kaïrwan

Youth narratives (1887–1897)

The son of the bear hunter  • The spirit of the Llano estakado  • Kong-Kheou, the word of honor ( The blue-red Methuselah ) • The slave caravan  • The treasure in the Silver Lake  • The legacy of the Inca  • The oil prince  • The black mustang
Groups of shorter texts: illustration texts  • Texts below the pseudonym Hobble-Frank

Late work (1900–1910)

Heavenly thoughts  • In the realm of the silver lion III  • Erzgebirge village stories  • In the realm of the silver lion IV  • And peace on earth!  • Babel and the Bible  • Ardistan and Jinnistan I – II  • Winnetou IV  • My life and striving

Other works (1896–1912)

The joys and sorrows of a widely read person  • Serious sounds (contains, among others, Ave Maria ) • Three questions of humanity  • Sitara, the land of the human  soul • Up into the realm of noble men

Film adaptations of the works and life of Karl May


cinemamovies

On the ruins of paradise  (1920) • The death caravan  (1920) • The devil worshipers  (1920) • Through the desert  (1936) • The slave caravan  (1958) • The lion of Babylon  (1959) • The treasure in the Silver Lake  (1962) • Winnetou Part 1  (1963) • Old Shatterhand  (1964) • The Schut  (1964) • Winnetou Part 2  (1964) • Among Vultures  (1964) • The Aztec Treasure  (1965) • The Pyramid of the Sun God  (1965) • The Oil Prince  (1965) • Through wild Kurdistan  (1965) • Winnetou 3rd part  (1965) • Old Surehand 1st part  (1965) • In the realm of the silver lion  (1965) • The legacy of the Inca  (1966) • Winnetou and the Half-blood Apanatschi  (1966) • Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand  (1966) • Winnetou and Shatterhand in the valley of the dead  (1968) • The trail leads to the Silver Lake  (1990) • WinneToons - The legend of the treasure in the Silver Lake  (2009)

Television series and films

With Karl May in the Orient  (1963) • Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi  (1973/75) • My friend Winnetou  (1980) • The bush ghost  (1986) • Hello - here Karl May / Bärenstark  (1987) • Prairie hunters in Mexico  (1988) • Winnetou  (1996) • Winnetou's Return  (1998) • WinneToons  (2002) • Winnetou - The Myth Lives  (2016)

Adaptations of the biography

Acquittal for Old Shatterhand  (1965) • Karl May  (movie, 1974) • Karl May  (TV series, 1992)