Lana - Queen of the Amazons
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| Original title | Lana - Queen of the Amazons |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Brazil |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script |
Ernst von Hasselbach , Géza von Cziffra (as Enrico Anden ) |
| production | Team film ( Gero Wecker ) |
| music | Herbert Trantow |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut |
Wolfgang Wehrum , Margot Jahn , Liselotte Schumacher |
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Lana - Queen of the Amazons is an adventure film shot in the jungle of Brazil by director Géza von Cziffra with Catherina von Schell in the lead role of a blonde Amazon who rules a remote tribe. The color film in Ultrascope premiered on November 27, 1964.
action
The ethnologist and researcher Professor van Vries set off for the Amazon with his nephew Peter to track down the places of worship of the legendary Amazons out of scientific interest. A gang of villains and adventurers led by Don Geronimo Aussa is also heading there at the same time. Aussa hopes to find the immeasurable treasures of Eldorado there, which Francisco de Orellana , a companion of Francisco Pizarro , once reported. With great ruthlessness Aussa drives his people and the native Indians, whom he has hired as rowers, on. When one of the Indians is attacked by a crocodile, a shot saves him. It is Peter van Vries who kills the reptile.
Don Aussa immediately captures Prof. van Vries and his nephew and forces both of them to join his gold prospecting expedition. During the boat trip, the troop is ambushed by the Chavantes Indians, whose men are serfs of the Amazons. Her leader Tahira saves Peter with an arrow shot in a fight with an anaconda , but a second arrow wounds him. Peter passes out and only wakes up again in the camp of the Amazons. The men of the expedition are brought as prisoners to the Chavantes camp.
When Peter wakes up again, the Queen of the Amazons, Lana, is sitting on his bed. In contrast to the quite dark-skinned Amazons, she is a light-skinned girl with long, blond hair, hung with a magnificent jewelry chain. When she sees a small, golden cross lying on his chest, she takes it from him and instead gives Peter a magnificent gem from her necklace. Then she kisses him briefly, gets up and leaves.
Don Aussa and his adventure troop soon realize that they have nothing to fear from the basically peaceful Chavantes Indians. Therefore, they are only waiting for a favorable moment to penetrate the nearby royal palace to steal the gold treasures suspected there. Meanwhile, Peter is allowed to move freely around the Amazon area with Lana's approval and during an exploration trip he discovers the fuselage of a crashed sports plane, surrounded by a "cult" wall. It is the 'big bird', as Lana calls the wreck that fell from the sky. Her father died immediately and her mother died a little later. Only she survived. Fascinated by her pale skin and light hair, the Amazon tribe soon made her demigoddess and queen ... instead of Tahira, who was actually entitled to this position. Peter has now fallen in love with Lana and decides to return home with her.
The large-scale Amazon Moon Festival seems to him the best opportunity to escape. Lana is ready to come with him, and Tahira helps the two, not entirely unselfishly, by supplying them with weapons. Prof. van Vries joins the couple - with some valuable tablets in his luggage that he discovered here. Almost at the same time Don Aussa tries his luck with his men and wants to use explosives to penetrate the treasure chamber of the Amazons. But the Amazons are not so easily caught off guard. There is a firefight in which the professor dies, among other things. Lana and Peter, however, can reach the rescue boat and escape the green hell.
Production notes
The outdoor and expedition shots of the film were made in Rio de Janeiro , Belem and in Amazonia .
Catherina von Schell played her first film role here. She was discovered in Munich by the film producer Gero Wecker , who hired her for this film.
For the exterior shots and the dialogue direction (instructions to the Brazilian actors), Cziffra, the actor and native Brazilian Cyll Farney, was at his side.
criticism
The film's large lexicon of people calls the film a "ridiculous jungle bugger".
The manual films 1962/64 saw Lana - Queen of the Amazons as "naive adventure entertainment".
The lexicon of the international film judged: "With weak approaches to pastiche, temperamentless and naive adventure cinema ."
Web links
- Lana - Queen of the Amazons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Table of contents in badmovies.de
- Lana - Queen of the Amazons at filmportal.de
- Lana, Rainha the Amazon at Cinemateca Brasileira
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 91.
- ^ Films 1962/64, Handbook VII of Catholic Film Critics, p. 98. Düsseldorf 1965.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 5, S. 2151. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987. See also Lana - Queen of the Amazons. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 27, 2018 .