Marrakech (1966)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Marrakech |
| Original title | Our Man in Marrakesh |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Don Sharp |
| script | Peter Yeldham |
| production | Harry Alan Towers |
| music | Malcolm Lockyer |
| camera | Michael Reed |
| cut | Teddy Darvas |
| occupation | |
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Marrakech (Original title: Our Man in Marrakesh ) is a British comedy film from 1966 with Tony Randall and Senta Berger in the lead roles.
action
In Marrakech , a man is stabbed to death in the street and transported away in a carriage. Another man named Jonquil gives the killer money and then goes to Casablanca airport . There he takes photos of arriving passengers, including the American architect Andrew Jessel. Jessel then drives to Marrakech with the other travelers. When he tries to move into his hotel room, there is a mix-up, so that he ends up in the room of the journalist Kyra Stanovy. He then finds the body of a man in the closet. Kyra, who wants to swap rooms and also discovers the body, claims the man is her fiancé Philippe. However, she does not want to alert the police, whereupon Jessel inevitably responds to her suggestion that the body should be secretly disappeared.
After they have taken the body to a cemetery, Jessel and Kyra go to a casino, where other guests of their travel group are also staying. Among them is a courier who is supposed to deliver two million dollars to the corrupt businessman Casimir. He has agreed to sell secret documents that are supposed to ensure that an important vote by the United Nations in favor of the People's Republic of China goes out. However, Casimir does not know who the courier is. George Lillywhite, who allegedly owns a travel company, and Arthur Fairbrother, who sells china, introduce themselves to him, but do not identify themselves as couriers. Back at the hotel, Kyra finds Philippe in her closet the next day. Casimir's men have again put the body in the hotel room to accuse Kyra, who is actually a CIA agent, for the murder and thus to get her out of the way. Jessel, in turn, becomes even more entangled in the matter when he appears at Casimir's and accidentally takes Casimir's briefcase with the secret documents with him.
Jessel and Kyra are then forced to flee into the desert through the streets and bazaars of Marrakech. When her car breaks down, the truck driver Achmed takes her with him. He drives her into the mountains, where Jessel and Kyra get closer in a mountain hut. When Kyra finds the secret documents in the briefcase, she thinks Jessel is the courier and points her gun at him. Jessel takes the pistol from her, but then gives it back to her, convincing her not to be the courier. They continue with Achmed the next day. When they are followed by Jonquil, who works for Casimir, Jessel and Kyra jump out of the truck, which a little later rolls down a slope and explodes. In the desert, Jessel and Kyra meet several men who take them on their horses to the palace of their English-born leader El Caid. He wants to help them deliver Casimir to the police. But shortly before meeting the courier, who is Arthur Fairbrother, Casimir succeeds in capturing Kyra and El Caid. However, Jessel soon comes to their aid. With Achmed, who survived the crash of the truck, and several locals, Jessel manages to overpower Casimir's men and prevent Casimir and Fairbrother from escaping. Jessel and Kyra then embrace and leave the scene.
background
The shooting took place on the original locations in Marrakech. The film premiered in London in April 1966 . In Germany it was first shown in cinemas on July 22, 1966.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , Marrakech was a "gangster comedy with a lot of situational comedy". Cinema spoke of a “colorful espionage adventure” in which director Don Sharp “set a brisk pace”. The result, however, was "half-silly fun". The conclusion was: "Amusing Sixtiesschund, funny cast".
Prisma described the film as a “successful sixties comedy”, the parallels to the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Man Who Knew Too Much . According to the script by Peter Yeldham, director Don Sharp staged a “turbulent fun with a prominent cast”.
German version
The German dubbed version was created in Munich in 1966 .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Jessel | Tony Randall | Holger Hagen |
| Kyra Stanovy | Senta Berger | Senta Berger |
| Mr. Casimir | Herbert Lom | Herbert Weicker |
| Arthur Fairbrother | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Robert Klupp |
| El Caid | Terry Thomas | John Pauls-Harding |
| Achmed | Grégoire Aslan | Klaus W. Krause |
| George Lillywhite | John Le Mesurier | Harald Wolff |
| Jonquil | Klaus Kinski | Werner Uschkurat |
| Samia Voss | Margaret Lee | Heidi Treutler |
| Hotel employee | Emile Stemmler | Ernst Constantine |
| Police chief | William Sanguinetti | Wolf Ackva |
| Export manager | Burt Kwouk | Panos Papadopulos |
Web links
- Marrakech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marrakech at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marrakech. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de