Mandingo (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mandingo |
| Original title | Mandingo |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Fleischer |
| script | Norman Wexler |
| production | Dino De Laurentiis |
| music | Maurice Jarre |
| camera | Richard H. Kline |
| cut | Frank Bracht |
| occupation | |
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Mandingo is an American feature film from 1974. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kyle Onstott. Richard Fleischer directed it. The title refers to the Mandinka people .
action
The southern states of the USA during the time before the civil war : On the dilapidated southern state plantation run by the widower Warren Maxwell and his son, the Mandinka-born slave Ganymede, called Mede, is used for life and death fights against other slaves trained. Maxwell's son Hammond has largely ignored his wife, Blanche, since he realized on their wedding night that she was no longer a virgin. Instead, he rapes his slave, Ellen, while Blanche forces Mede to have sex. Ellen has a child from Hammond, which Hammond lets sell. When Blanche also has a child and it is black, the doctor kills it, Hammond poisons Blanche and then he kills Mede in a kettle of boiling water. A slave comes into possession of his rifle and shoots Maxwell.
Production notes
- The reviews when the film was released were mixed, but the box office success was great.
- Quentin Tarantino used the motif of the Mandingo fights in 2012 in his film Django Unchained .
- Charlton Heston had turned down the role of father. Timothy Bottoms , Jan-Michael Vincent , Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges turned down the role of the son.
- Boxer Ken Norton skipped a fight against Jerry Quarry , which would have earned him $ 250,000.
criticism
- The lexicon of international films wrote that the "completely unmotivated story [...] served as an occasion for an orgy of brutalities" and that the film was "like from the slaughterhouse".
- Roger Ebert called the film racist trash "racist trash" and gave it zero stars. Richard Schickel from Time found the film boring and overloaded with clichés. Reviewer Robin Wood thought the film was great and the best race ever made in Hollywood. "
- Dave Kehr praised the film in the New York Times
Award
The film received the golden screen in 1977 .
DVD
Paramount Pictures first released the film on DVD in 2008 as part of its Legend Films series. This version is uncensored. The German DVD by Kinowelt / Studiocanal is heavily censored. Both the old VHS releases from 1983 and 1985 and the American DVD are indexed in Germany .
continuation
The feature film Die Sklavenhöl der Mandingos ( Drum ) is a sequel to Mandingo . It was shot a year after this film. The production company was United Artists , the producer was again Dino De Laurentiis . Ken Norton, Brenda Sykes and Lillian Hayman played again. Norton and Sykes played different roles. Warren Oates played the role that Perry King portrayed Hammond Maxwell. The film begins 15 years after the storyline of Mandingo ended. In Germany the film was sold as Die Sklavenhölle der Mandingos .
Web links
- Mandingo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mandingo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 12, 2013 .
- ^ Mandingo :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews , Rogerebert.suntimes.com. July 25, 1975. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
- ↑ Schickel, Richard. "Cinema: Cold, Cold Ground" , TIME , 12 May., 1975
- ↑ Robin Wood: Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond . Columbia University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-231-07605-3 , p. 256.
- ↑ Dave Kehr: In a Corrupt World Where the Violent Bear It Away . In: The New York Times , February 17, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ sectional report .
- ↑ Overview of Mandingo at Schnittberichte.com