Ewoks - Battle for Endor

Movie
German title	Ewoks - Battle for Endor Alternative title Star Wars: Ewoks - Battle for Endor
Original title	Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Alternative title Star Wars: Ewok Adventures - The Battle for Endor
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1985
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
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Director	Jim Wheat Ken Wheat
script	Jim Wheat Ken Wheat
production	George Lucas Thomas G. Smith
music	Peter Bernstein
camera	Isidore Mankofsky
cut	Eric Jenkins
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synchronization

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Ewoks - Kampf um Endor (Original title: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor , alternatively Star Wars: Ewok Adventures - The Battle for Endor ), also known as Star Wars: Ewoks - Kampf um Endor , is an American science fiction / fantasy - 1985 film directed by Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat . After the great success of the first part of Ewok - The Caravan of the Brave , George Lucas decided to produce a second part. In addition, the main character should be the same age as his daughter Amanda. Thus the film revolves around “Cindel Towani”.

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Without any specific reference to the plot of the Star Wars core saga, the film takes place at some point between The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi on the forest moon Endor, on which the plot of The Return of the Jedi is partially set . The plot takes place after the events of The Ewoks and continues the events of the first part Star Wars: Ewoks - The Caravan of the Brave about six months later.

About six months have passed since the Gorax incident (see Ewoks - The Caravan of the Brave ). Wicket W. Warrick learned the Towani family language quite well with Cindel's help. The repairs to the spaceship , with which the Towani family intends to fly home again soon, are almost finished. While Jeremitt Towani (father of Mace and Cindel) is busy with repairs on the spaceship, the village of the Ewoks is attacked by the marauders who actually come from the planet Sanyassa and also crash-landed on Endor . Many Ewoks and Catarine and Mace Towani are killed in the attack. Terak, the leader of the marauders, and the witch Charal demand "power" from Jeremitt Towani, an energy cell of the star cruiser. Terak takes her and then kills Jeremitt. Cindel has now lost her entire family and is taken prisoner to the Marauders' Castle along with Wicket W. Warrick and the other Ewoks.

However, Wicket W. Warrick and Cindel escape captivity and are pursued by two marauders. Therefore, Wicket and Cindel hide in a cave near a mountain, the entrance of which was filled in by the marauders. At the other end of the cave, the exit is high up on the mountain. To get back down from there, Wicket builds a hang glider . However, all of a sudden a kite attacks , who feels disturbed in his cave, and flies out of the cave with Cindel in his gripping arms. Wicket pursues the two with a hang glider and saves Cindel, but they crash into the forest below.

The next morning they meet Teek, a super-fast creature that lives on Endor. Teek takes them to a hut where the human Noa Briqualon lives, who is also stranded on Endor. In the beginning Noa is still very curmudgeon and doesn't want to have them with her. Apparently he's scared of making friends and then losing them again, as this has happened to him in the past. Years ago, Noa and his friend Salak crashed their spaceship on the planet. The crystal for the drive (like the energy cell stolen from Terak) was destroyed. Salak went looking for a new one, but never came back. After some getting used to, Noa befriends Wicket and Cindel and even becomes a kind of "father figure" for them.

In the castle of the marauders, the witch Charal tries to find out the "power" of the energy cell, but without success. Terak orders Charal to look for Cindel. He hopes that it knows the "power" and knows how to use it. In fact, Charal manages to kidnap Cindel through a trick. But of course Cindel doesn't know how to activate the "Force", and so she and Charal are locked up along with the other Ewoks. In the prison cell, Charal shows a skeleton in a cell and tells Cindel that it was Noa's friend Salak who spoke of the “power” that resides in the energy cells. Since Salak did not betray the "power", he was killed by Terak.

Noa, Wicket, and Teek make their way to the Marauders' Castle to free Cindel and the other Ewoks. They manage to sneak into the castle and free Cindel and the Ewoks from the cells. A marauder notices this and sounds the alarm, whereupon the other marauders go to the cell block. Cindel mentions the fate of Salak and causes Noa to take away the stolen energy cell from her parents' spaceship. The marauders pursue the refugees who run to Noa's spaceship. During a battle between Ewoks and marauders, Noa tries to activate the spaceship after installing the power cell. It finally succeeds and the marauders are defeated with the help of the on-board laser cannons. But Cindel is captured by Terak. He now demands the energy cell for freedom from Cindel. When Noa lays the energy cell on the forest floor and Terak Cindel is exposed, there is a fight between Noa and Terak, which Noa wins with the help of Wicket. After the victory, Noa and Cindel say goodbye to Endor and its residents and fly away in the star cruiser.

Technology and effects

The effects in the film are from ILM . Elaborate stop-motion animation was used for the film , as the go-motion animation was too expensive for this project. Phil Tippett and John Berg (Oscar winners) were responsible for the stop-motion effects, including bringing the Condor dragons , the Blurrgs and the Boar wolves to life in the two Ewok films.

Cast and dubbing

role	English		German voice actor
	actor	Voice actor	1. Synchro	2. Synchro
Wicket W. Warrick	Warwick Davis	Darryl Henriques	Mogens von Gadow	Santiago Ziesmer
King Terak	Carel Struycken	?	Gernot Duda	Tilo Schmitz
Jeremitt Towani	Paul Gleason		Klaus Guth	Stefan Gossler
Noa Briqualon	Wilford Brimley		Günther Sauer	Jürgen Kluckert
Cindel Towani	Aubree Miller		?	Emily Hasper
Mace Towani	Eric Walker		?	Nicolás Artajo
Witch Charal	Siân Phillips		?	Regine Albrecht
Young witch	Marianne Horine		?	Denise Gorzelanny
Deej Warrick	Daniel Frishman	Sydney Walker	?
Teek	Niki Botelho	Mark Dodson	?
Shodu Warrick	Pam Grizz	?	?
Willy	Tony Cox	?	?

Trivia

• A third part of the Ewok films had been in preparation. Some actors are said to have even received contracts for three films. However, the third film was never made.
• Cindel Towani is briefly mentioned again later in the books of the trilogy " The Black Fleet ": there she is now a reporter.

Release dates

• TV premiere in USA: November 24, 1985.
• Cinema release in Germany: November 6, 1986.

Web links

• Ewoks - The Battle for Endor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor in the German dubbing index (1st synchro)
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor in the German dubbing index (2nd synchro)
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor at behindthevoiceactors.com
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor at Fernsehserien.de
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor in Jedipedia.de
• Ewoks - Fight for Endor in Jedipedia.net