Last Knights - The knights of the 7th order

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Movie
German title Last Knights - The knights of the 7th order
Original title Last Knights
Country of production South Korea ,
Czech Republic ,
United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kazuaki Kiriya
script Michael Konyves ,
Dove Sussman
production Luci Kim ,
Kazuaki Kiriya
music Satnam Ramgotra ,
Martin Tillman
camera Antonio Riestra
cut Mark Sanger
occupation
synchronization

Last Knights - The Knights of the Order 7 is a film drama from the year 2015 by Kazuaki Kiriya . The plot of the film is based, among other things, on the Japanese story of the 47 ronin and other traditional Asian cinema themes that have been adapted to the European Middle Ages . The script was written by Michael Konyves and Dove Sussman . The main characters are Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman .

The film is about the survival of the knights of the disgraced Prince Bartok, who rebelled against the rampant corruption of Minister Gezza Mott. Central motives are loyalty, honor and revenge.

action

Prince Bartok is summoned to the imperial court to see Minister Gezza Mott; he follows the call together with the commander Raiden and an escort. At the court, people speak of Gezza Mott as the future head chef . Great gifts are expected from the princes of the empire in order to obtain his favor. Prince Bartok rejects this procedure and brings Gezza Mott a silk scarf instead of the expected expensive gift, which Gezza Mott brings up against Prince Bartok. Gezza Mott shows him his treasury with the valuable gifts received from other princes. There the prince collapses due to an illness, and Gezza Mott uses this weakness to beat him. Prince Bartok reflexively draws his sword and injures the minister's hand. For this he is summoned before the emperor and charged. In his defense speech, he admits the attack on the minister and at the same time denounces the corruption rampant at court . As a reaction to this, Prince Bartok is stripped of all his lands, and he is sentenced to death. His commander, Raiden, is forced to carry out the death sentence. So that the Bartoks family is not also executed, he complies and carries out the execution. After the execution, some of the prince's companions return to their lands, others stay in the city of the emperor and, after they have been removed from all offices, lead a life full of privation. The Seventh Corps, of which Raiden is in command, is disbanded.

While most of the members of the corps seek honest work such as fishing or blacksmithing, Raiden succumbs to alcohol and gambling and surrounds himself with prostitutes. His wife leaves him and he pledges the sword that Prince Bartok had given him before his death so that he could buy more alcohol.

Gezza Mott, however, suffers from paranoia and senses a conspiracy on the part of the former knights of Prince Bartok. He has Raiden shadowed by his commander around the clock. When Raiden is offered to Prince Bartok's daughter as a virgin whore and he does not respond with revenge, the commander Gezza Mott reports that Raiden was broken and that he was no longer in danger.

This is the moment the Knights of the Seventh Corps have been waiting for. Disguised as workers and equipped with false passports, they have been scouting the fortress the whole time and developing a plan how it can be taken quickly and quietly. The following night they break into the fortress and make it to Gezza Mott's apartment. There it comes to a duel between the two commanders, from which Raiden emerges as the victor after his sword destroys that of his adversary. Then the remaining troops surrender and Raiden has free passage to Gezza Mott.

When he wants to stab him with a dagger, Raiden beheads him.

Although the emperor recognizes Gezza Mott's mistakes, he cannot leave the knights' deeds unpunished, since an attack on the emperor's advisors is tantamount to an attack on the emperor. He asks his princes for advice and receives mostly confirmation that the execution of the knights would turn the people against him and turn the knights into martyrs .

However, a prince, whose daughter Hannah was forcibly married to Gezza Mott, worked out the same plan in advance with Raiden, which led to the fall of Gezza Mott. Raiden anticipated that the emperor would seek revenge and is now standing in front of his knights. Raiden will probably be executed (this remains open in the end, however, as it is not shown), and the remaining knights serve the Bartok family again, but now Prince Bartok's daughter.

production

The exterior shots of the film were shot in the Czech Republic . The film is digitally in 35 mm - film format , anamorphically in the aspect ratio 2.35: 1 ( Panavision ) with Dolby Digital been added tone.

Luca Productions and Czech Anglo Productions produced the film in 2012, but it took until 2014 to find a film distributor .

publication

The film opened on April 3, 2015 in the United States and Canada , followed by Lithuania and Estonia on April 10. The film was released directly on DVD in German-speaking countries on October 19, 2015, as was the case in Sweden . In Spain the film premiered on television on July 10th. On the Tokyo International Film Festival which was Japan premiere on October 28, 2015.

synchronization

The German synchronization took place at Scalamedia in Berlin. The dialogue book is by Gerrit Schmidt-Foss , who also directed the dialogue .

role actor German speakers
Raiden Clive Owen Tom Vogt
Bartok Morgan Freeman Klaus Sunshine
Gezza Mott Aksel Hennie Marcel Collé
Lt. Cortez Cliff Curtis Ingo Albrecht
Amy Anna Linhartová Sophie Lechtenbrink
doctor Pavel Kríz Frank Kirschgens
Auguste Sung-kee Ahn Stefan Gossler
Accountant Peter Hosking FGM Stegers
Gabriel Noah Silver Patrick Baehr
Envoy Lee Ingleby Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Hannah Si-Yeon Park Nadine Zaddam
Ito Tsuyoshi Ihara Oliver Siebeck
Jim James Babson Lutz Schnell
Josiah Michael Lombardi Nic Romm
Emperor Peyman Moaadi Marcus Off
Lilly Rose Caton Maria Hönig
Maria Shohreh Aghdashloo Katharina Lopinski
Naomi Ayelet Zurer Natascha Schaff
Olaf Dave Legeno Erich Rauker
Rodrigo Daniel Adegboyega Kevin Kraus
Slim Tully Giorgio Caputo Nicolas Boell
Thomas Dan Brown Sven Brieger
Prince # 1 NN Marlon Rosenthal
Truchsess Robert Russell Rudiger Evers

Reviews

The rating of the film on the Rotten Tomatoes website is mostly bad. Only fifteen percent of the critics gave a positive rating. For the film service , the film is a “half-baked attempt to transpose the Japanese 'Ronin' myth into a fictional European Middle Ages”, which “despite good actors” fails because “its script remains as wooden as the battle choreographies”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amy Nicholson: South Korea Wants to Dominate Pop Culture, and This Movie Is a Big Step. In: LA Weekly. April 1, 2015, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Last Knights - The knights of the 7th order. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Release certificate for Last Knights - The Knights of the 7th Order . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 972 V).
  4. ↑ Lee Clark Zumpe: Kazuaki Kiriya's Last Knights falls short of expectations. In: Tampa Bay Newspapers . April 6, 2015, accessed April 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Last Knights. In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved April 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Last Knights. In: Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 16, 2016 .
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  8. ↑ Last Knights. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 16, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b Last Knights - The Knights of the 7th Order. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 16, 2016 .