Enemy Mine - beloved enemy

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Movie
German title Enemy Mine - beloved enemy
Original title Enemy mine
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wolfgang Petersen
script Barry B. Longyear ,
Edward Khmara
production Stephen Friedman
music Maurice Jarre
camera Tony Imi
cut Hannes Nikel
occupation

Enemy Mine is an American - German science fiction film directed by Wolfgang Petersen from 1985 . The German cinema premiere took place on December 12, 1985.

action

Humanity is waging war over a planetary system against the reptilian Dracs. The human space fighter pilot Willis Davidge and the Drac Jeriba Shigan have to make an emergency landing on an inhospitable planet after a space battle. There they continue to fight each other for life and death. After Shigan captures Davidge, they work together to survive, each learning each other's language. After the Drac saves the human's life, they eventually become friends. When Shigan expects offspring due to asexual reproduction typical of his people and senses that there will be problems with the birth, Davidge undertakes to care for the child. So that the young Drac can later be accepted into the community of his people, he learns the list of his ancestors by heart. Shigan dies in childbirth, and Davidge raises his descendants, Zammis, on his own until people who keep Dracs as slaves capture him. The seriously wounded Davidge is later rescued by a search party and brought back to his space station, but flies back to free Zammis and the other slaves. The film ends with the fact that at the integration ceremony on the Drac's home planet, the name of the human being is added to the ancestral line of young Drac.

criticism

“In spite of all the efforts, this B-picture is only reasonably interesting in overly pimped-up packaging; Bombastic effects and a lot of trick technology are exhibited in bumpy scenes. "

“Science fiction has seldom been more sentimental than in the US directorial debut of Wolfgang Petersen ( Das Boot ). Conclusion: Small story, monstrously pepped up. "

background

Locations

Wolfgang Petersen shot the film in the Munich Bavaria film studios and on Lanzarote. The set of the space station and the planet could be visited in public tours until the end of 2007.

Book template

The plot of the film is based on a science fiction short story by the Hugo and Nebula Award -winning author Barry B. Longyear (* 1942), who first appeared in 1979 as Enemy Mine . In German it was entitled You, my enemy or my dear enemy as the core of the novel novella Erbfeinde published. The novel accompanying the film was expanded upon by SF writer David Gerrold based on this short story.

literature

  • Barry B. Longyear, David Gerrold: Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy. German translation: Eva Malsch. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-453-02277-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed April 11, 2013.
  2. cinema.de
  3. Barry B. Longyear: Hereditary Enemies. German translation: Helmut Pape. Moewig, Rastatt 1984, ISBN 978-3-8118-6739-0 .