Enemy Mine - beloved enemy
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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 |
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Director | Wolfgang Petersen |
script |
Barry B. Longyear , Edward Khmara |
production | Stephen Friedman |
music | Maurice Jarre |
camera | Tony Imi |
cut | Hannes Nikel |
occupation | |
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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
- The anti-war films The Wages of the Brave (1965) and Hell Are We (1968) have a similar theme: During the Pacific War, American and Japanese soldiers stranded on a desert island and learn to live together peacefully.
- A first science fiction version of the material was in Gerry Anderson's TV series UFO in 1969 , in the episode The Encounter .
- The episode The Secret of Starbuck in the SF series Battlestar Galactica (1980) also has a similar plot.
- The basic plot of this film was taken up several times , especially by Star Trek , for example in the episode Darmok of Starship Enterprise: The Next Century and in the episode Dawn of Star Trek: Enterprise . The clearest adaptation, however, is the almost identical content of the next-century episode On a Thin Line .
- In 2002 Arjen Anthony Lucassen wrote the song Inseparable Enemies for the music project Star One , which is about this story.
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
- Enemy Mine - Beloved enemy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy at filmportal.de
- Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy in the online movie database
- Grrrrrrrrrr in space . In: Der Spiegel 50/1985, December 9, 1985
- Comparison of the cut versions Int. DVD Vers. - Dt. Tape version , The Fourth from 12 - FSK 16 DVD by Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 11, 2013.
- ↑ cinema.de
- ↑ Barry B. Longyear: Hereditary Enemies. German translation: Helmut Pape. Moewig, Rastatt 1984, ISBN 978-3-8118-6739-0 .