Captain Sabertooth and Lama Rama's treasure
Käpt'n Säbelzahn and the treasure of Lama Rama ( Norwegian original title: Kaptein Sabeltann og skatten i Lama Rama ) is a Norwegian pirate film for children by director and cameraman John Andreas Andersen from 2014 and the first feature film from the Käpt'n-Säbelzahn -Franchise to Terje Formoe . The film opened in German cinemas on May 7, 2015.
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Pinky was saved from drowning as a baby by the seaman Langemann, the right hand of the famous pirate captain Saber Tooth , and was taken in, while the boy's father, also a seaman, apparently died in the shipwreck . The boy grows up with Langemann in Abrahafen and, now eleven years old, wants to go to sea with Langemann on the ship of Captain Säbelzahn, the Dark Lady , but he is denied this. Under Saber Tooth, the Dark Lady's crew set out for Monkey Island to find Maga Kahn's treasure . In fact, they manage to recover the treasure that turns out to be a nautical map of the legendary kingdom of Lama Rama . They are then attacked by monkeys, which they can escape at the last second, but who can incapacitate their cabin boys . Therefore, Saber-Tooth decides to carry out the so-called fire test in Abrahafen before leaving for Lama Rama, through which a new cabin boy is to be determined.
When the Dark Lady returns and it is announced that the trial by fire will be held, Pinky wants to take his chance and become the new cabin boy. Unfortunately, during the ordeal, you have to swim, and Pinky never learned to swim. Attempts by his friend Ravn to teach him also fail. While the pirates and everyone else move away from the ships in preparation for the ordeal by fire, Pinky strolls disappointedly through the harbor and lets the screams of a captured monkey lure her onto an old fishing boat . When he frees the monkey, he notices that the alleged fishing boat is actually a camouflaged pirate ship, and he wants to warn Sabertooth. But the pirates catch him and take him with them to the Dark Lady, who they capture in the absence of Saber Tooth and his men . It concerns the gang of the pirate Barscher Bjørn , an old competitor of Captain Sabertooth ; the gang also includes battle-hardened Frida.
Bjørn wants to humiliate his competitor and at the same time benefit from his reputation by going on a rampage himself as a saber tooth. Then he discovers the card for Lama Rama and asks Pinky to read it for him. The latter reluctantly explains the map to him when the pirates want to let him go over the plank . Incidentally, Pinky picks up a hint from Bjørn that his father Morgan is still alive. Then he is locked below deck and Bjørn sets course for Lama Rama. But Saber Tooth has meanwhile made Bjørn's old ship afloat again and is hard on the Dark Lady's heels. Unexpectedly, Ravn, who wants to help Pinky, and her mother Rosa, who Langemann has had an eye on, are also on board. Pinky manages to get free with the help of the monkey that followed him and to make the Dark Lady unfit to drive for the time being. Sabertooth and his crew can take back the ship. Bjørn's gang is abandoned on their old ship, while Saber-Tooth can finally set a course for Lama Rama himself. The captain refuses Pinky the recognition it deserves, and Langemann does not intervene either, as he doesn't dare to contradict his captain.
After a stormy journey, the pirates finally reach Lama Rama. They want to steal the famous royal pearl from the royal treasury, which is why Langemann and Rosa are supposed to pretend to be Dutch (in the original: German) merchant couple and sneak into the palace. Pinky also joins them against Saber-Tooth's arrangement. They are initially rejected by Prince Badal, the king's brother, but then invited to a festival by King Rufus, who loves jokes and extravagance and considers laughter to be the greatest treasure on earth. In the course of the festival there is an argument between Rufus and Badal, who finds his brother unworthy of government and announces that he wants to leave the country. Langemann, Rosa and Pinky are then taken to a guest room, from where it is not possible for them to open the back door of the palace at night according to Saber-tooth orders. Pinky can abseil out of the window, steal the key from the guard and give Sabertooth's crew access in good time.
Meanwhile, Bjørn's gang has caught up with the Dark Lady again and wants to board her, but Ravn, who is the only one left on the ship, manages to lock her in the ship's belly. At that moment, Prince Badal arrives at the ship and decides, together with Bjørn's pirates, to seize power in Lama Rama. Ravn is tied up, King Rufus kidnapped and also imprisoned on the Dark Lady, and Bjørn's pirates scatter the king's personal belongings in the jungle to create the impression that Rufus has been eaten by crocodiles. Then Badal lets the palace guard capture Saber Tooth and his men who, with Pinky's help, were able to free Langemann and Rosa from their room and then penetrate the treasury. When he was arrested, Sabertooth found out about Pinky's betrayal towards Bjørn and was angry with the boy. But Pinky of all people manages to escape the guards and escape into the sea - where he suddenly realizes that he can swim.
Together with Ravn, who has also been freed by the monkey in the meantime, Pinky withdraws to the Dark Lady. Prince Badal is meanwhile declared king and celebrates the success of their intrigue with Bjørn's gang, who was promised the royal pearl. The next morning, Pinky and Ravn join forces to steer the Dark Lady closer to the coast and with an aimed cannon shot they can free Saber Tooth and his men from the prison tower. When they are about to be shot at by the palace guards, they discover the captured King Rufus. Sabertooth's team meanwhile fights against Bjørn's gang and the palace guard; Successful at first, they soon have to surrender to the superior force, but just at this moment Pinky and Ravn appear with King Rufus.
Badal is ousted and thrown into dungeon with Bjørn's gang, Rosa and Langemann get closer, and King Rufus, who has not lost his happiness, shows himself graciously with Saber-tooth pirates. He gives Pinky a wish for his help, and the latter decides in favor of the royal pearl so that he can hand it over to the captain and finally get his approval. Pinky can also extract more information about his father from the prisoner Bjørn; so he learns that some time ago he set off on a trip to the far north. Back in Abrahafen, Pinky von Säbelzahn is officially named the new cabin boy. At the ceremonial opening of the royal pearl, supposedly the greatest treasure of all, it turns out to be an oversized box devil . Initially disappointed, Captain Saber Tooth finally had to laugh at the king's joke.
In the last scene Pinky vows to find his father, despite Langemann's advice to the contrary, even if he would have to go to the end of the world to do so.
background
The film is based on the children's book series Käpt'n Säbelzahn by the Norwegian teacher and folk musician Terje Formoe . With the figure of the pirate captain, Formoe had created one of the most popular children's book characters in Scandinavia. Since then were Sabeltann - Franchise books, plays, PC games, a television series, a cinema animated film (2003) and a private amusement park emerged. Captain Saber Tooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama is the first attempt to establish the character in the cinema and outside of Scandinavia. In Norway, the film, which premiered there on April 30, 2014, had the most successful theatrical release of 2014 with more than 100,000 admissions in the first week.
Kyrre Haugen Sydness , who has already played the title character in plays and in the television series Kaptein Sabeltann - Kongen på havet , also took on his role for the feature film. In addition, Janne Formoe , the daughter of the saber-tooth inventor, can be seen in the film as the top palace guard.
reception
Gudrun Lukasz-Aden from Filmdienst sees Captain Saber Tooth and Lama Rama's Treasure as a “humorous pirate film” with all the elements that children would like. The story is "exciting", "imaginative" and staged "with a light hand and a wink", the child actors would "invite you to identify"; thus the film is "typically Scandinavian in a good sense". "[The] figure of the childish king, a cute mooring monkey, pirate and pirate skirmishes in which the sabers clink but no blood flows, and an unbreakable friendship" would also contribute to the success of the "sailor's thread adventure".
The Austrian Youth Media Commission gave the film a positive rating and particularly emphasized the “lavish furnishings”, the “magnificent costumes” and the “exotic locations” that would give the “child-friendly staged pirate story” “some show value” , as well as the child-like identification figures for "children of primary school age". The "animation sequences", the "songs" or Pinky's "hearty monkey" would also contribute to entertainment.
On the other hand, Katrin Hoffmann from epd Film was able to gain little positive from the film: The figure of Captain Saber Tooth remains “pale and without its own profile, neither dangerous nor courageous”, and the protagonist Pinky remains “also without profile”; Most interesting is King Rufus, whose "gigantic treasury" refutes his message that money does not make you happy. So the film falls against other Norwegian children's film productions such as Doktor Proktor or the Knerten films and fails "as a quiet copy between Wickie and the Pirates of the Caribbean, unfortunately across the board".
synchronization
Splendid Synchron GmbH in Cologne was responsible for the German dubbing , with Mike Betz directing the dialogue .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Pinky | Vinjar Pettersen | Nicolas Rathod |
| Prince Badal | Jon Øigarden | Peter Flechtner |
| Langemann | Odd-Magnus Williamson | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Skin | Geir Kolden | Daniel Johannes |
Web links
- Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website (German)
- Short making-of on YouTube ( Moviepilot Kids, German)
- Film on filmweb.no (Norwegian)
- Film on filmfront.no (Norwegian)
supporting documents
- ↑ Release certificate for Captain Saber Tooth and the treasure of Lama Rama . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 681 K).
- ↑ a b c Captain saber tooth and the treasure of Lama Rama. (No longer available online.) Youth Media Commission , archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Gudrun Lukasz-Aden: Captain Saber Tooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama - long review . In: Filmdienst . No. 9 , 2015 ( online [accessed May 28, 2015]).
- ↑ Katrin Hoffmann: Critique of Captain Saber Tooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama. In: epd film . Evangelical Press Service , April 17, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Captain Sabertooth and Lama Rama's treasure. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 20, 2017 .
