Escape from the planet of the apes

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Movie
German title Escape from the planet of the apes
Original title Escape from the Planet of the Apes
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length Cinema and
Blu-ray Disc: 97 minutes DVD: 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Don Taylor
script Paul Dehn
production Arthur P. Jacobs
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Joseph F. Biroc
cut Marion Rothman
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (original title: Escape from the Planet of the Apes ) is a 1971 science fiction film directed by Don Taylor . The film is the sequel to Planet of the Apes from 1968 and Return to Planet of the Apes from 1970.

action

In 1973 a spaceship drifted off the coast of Southern California in the Pacific . A US Navy unit is given the task of recovering it. As it later turns out, the spaceship is Colonel Taylor's, which has been missing on Earth for over two years. But when the spaceship opens, no people emerge from it, but three chimpanzees : Cornelius, Zira and Milo. They are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo infirmary for examination . There the animal psychiatrist Dr. Dixon and the veterinarian Dr. Branton experiments with them. Zira is under-challenged by the experiments aimed at common animals and soon gets annoyed, so that a sentence slips out of her, even though the chimpanzees agreed not to speak. Shortly afterwards, Milo is attacked and killed by a gorilla from the neighboring cage.

In no time at all, the news of the talking monkeys spread around the world. The US President is now calling a commission of inquiry, to which Dr. Otto Hasslein, the chief scientific advisor to the president, belongs. There Zira reveals that they come from the future of the earth. That they knew Colonel Taylor, that people took the position of animals in their world and that they observed from their spaceship how the entire earth was destroyed, they later only tell the doctors Dr. Dixon and Dr. Branton, whom they have taken confidence in.

Since Zira and Cornelius turn out to be peaceful and civilized beings, they no longer have to live in a cage in the zoo, but are housed in a hotel, newly dressed and take part in social events. It soon turns out that Zira is pregnant. When she passes out as a result, Dr. Hasslein explains the situation and accompanies Zira to her room, where he makes her drunk with champagne, which Zira only knows under the name of grape juice pearl (in the original: grape juice plus ) and which, according to Dr. Hasslein said she was just the right drink for her pregnancy. He asks Zira questions and secretly plays a tape. He learns about the destruction of the earth; When asked about the exact time, Zira can only name the first three digits. When Dr. Hasslein goes to the President with this information, he learns from him that NASA experts could decipher the year from the data meters of the spaceship as 4955 (3955 in the original sound). After another secret meeting, the commission recommends that the president intern Zira and Cornelius at the military base camp 11 and, under the direction of Dr. Have Hasslein questioned by the CIA .

During interrogation, Cornelius tells the story: An epidemic had struck dogs and cats on earth, so that they had to be killed and people no longer had pets. So humans took the primitive monkey as a new pet, but it was still 20 times more intelligent than their previous pets. The monkeys evolved over the centuries and became servants of humans, but refused to accept their enslavement, and one day a monkey named Caesar was the first to say “No” to his master and led the revolt of his fellows .

Dr. Hasslein now has Zira administered a truth serum and forwards her recorded statements to the commission. This then comes to the following results: There is no evidence of hostility between the two monkeys towards the human species. What the apes will do to humans in the future would be nothing else than what humans are doing to apes and animals in the present. Since the offspring of the monkeys could pose an increasing threat to the human species in the next few centuries, the unborn child is to be aborted by Zira and both monkeys sterilized.

In the meantime, Zira and Cornelius manage to escape, and the heavily pregnant Zira goes into labor shortly afterwards . On the run they meet Dr. Branton and are taken to the circus of this friend Armando, who is ready to help them. Zira's child, whom she named Milo, was born in the circus. Dr. Dixon learns that they are now planning to look for them in the circus too, so that Cornelius and Zira have to flee from there with their child. They are hiding in an abandoned ship at the harbor, but Dr. Hasslein is on their heels and finds them too. He shoots Zira and her baby. Cornelius then shoots Dr. Hasslein and is shot himself by the soldiers who approached. With the last of her strength, Zira throws her dead baby overboard and lies down next to the dead Cornelius to die.

In the last shot you can see the ringmaster Armando apparently with the previously born baby monkey of his chimpanzee Heloise. But the baby monkey is just saying its first word: "Mama". It turns out to be Zira's baby monkey, which she had previously secretly exchanged in the circus.

synchronization

The German synchronization was created by Berliner Synchron . Ruth Leschin conducted the dialogue book and Konrad Wagner directed the dialogue .

role actor German voice
Cornelius Roddy McDowall Andreas Mannkopff
Zira Kim Hunter Renate Danz
Dr. Lewis Dixon Bradford Dillman Joachim Kemmer
Dr. Stephanie Branton Natalie Trundy Brigitte Grothum
Dr. Otto Hasslein Eric Braeden Michael Chevalier
The president William Windom Heinz Petruo
Armando Ricardo Montalbán Peer Schmidt
Chairman of the Commission John Randolph Konrad Wagner
E-1 Albert Salmi Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
TV news anchor Bill Bonds Erich Nieswandt

Production, publication

The cost of production was estimated at $ 2.5 million. The film grossed around $ 12.3 million in US cinemas.

It was released in the US on May 21, 1971, in Germany on August 12, 1971.

criticism

"An interesting variation among the sequel films on the 'Planet of the Apes', which - if not without clichés - criticizes civilization and fires off some satirical tips on the contemporary media world."

- Lexicon of international film

Sequels

1972: Conquest of the planet of the apes
1973: The battle for the planet of the apes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Escape from the Planet of the Apes. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Escape from the Planet of the Apes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used