Mathias Sandorf (1979)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Mathias Sandorf |
| Country of production |
Germany (ZDF) France ( TF1 ) Hungary ( Magyar Televízió ) Italy (Rai) |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | approx. 358 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jean Pierre Decourt |
| script | Claude Desailly based on the novel by Jules Verne |
| production | Claudio Biondi |
| music | Bert reason |
| camera | János Kende |
| cut | Rossana Maiuri Carlo Reali |
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Mathias Sandorf is a ZDF adventure four-parter from 1979 based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne with István Bujtor in the lead role. The dialogue direction of the German dubbed version was done by Erich Ebert .
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Part 1 (ZDF, December 2, 1979)
Around the middle of the 19th century, Hungarian aristocrats are planning a revolt. They want to free their country from the Habsburg imperial family and Austrian oppression. Count Mathias Sandorf is to take the lead. But he hesitates. Only when his wife Rena falls victim to a murder attempt by the Zirone brothers does he decide to fight. In Trieste he wants to prepare the rebellion with his friends. Sandorf does not know that two dangerous crooks have attached themselves to his heels, who are entitled to any means to hand the count over to his enemies. Among them is one of the Zirones brothers, who saw his brother's execution and swore eternal vengeance, and Sarcany, a man who has returned from Africa.
Part 2 (ZDF, December 4, 1979)
The conspiracy is exposed through treason. Sandorf and his friends are arrested and sentenced to death. The night before the planned execution, Bathory and Sandorf break out of the Pisano fortress, but Zathmar is caught. The refugees find protection with the Italian fisherman Ferrato and his daughter Maria. Ferrato wants to bring the two to Italy, but is betrayed by Carpena because Luisa loves Luisa but has been turned away. Bathory is caught again. Sandorf has to continue his escape alone. The French acrobats Pescade and Matifou help him further into his county. There Sandorf learns that he has been expropriated and that his daughter has disappeared without a trace. Before he can go underground, he too is caught after a dramatic hunt. On the way back to Pisino (Pazin) he makes one last attempt to escape. In the hail of bullets he sinks into the waters of the Adriatic .
Fifteen years later in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik ), Peter Bathory befriends Sava, the daughter of the traitor Toronthal, who has moved his bank here. When Sava christened a ship, the "Savarena" of the mysterious Dr. Antkirtt a. He invites the acrobats Pescade and Matifou to his ship and offers them to work for him.
A mysterious man, heavily veiled, wanders through the city.
Part 3 (ZDF, December 8, 1979)
Dr. Antekirtt shows a noticeable interest in the people who were involved in the Sandorf affair. When he learns that Peter has fallen in love with Sava and wants to marry her, he is determined to prevent this. At the same time, the crook Sarcany reappeared. He reminds Toronthal of his promise to give him Sava as his wife. Because of an accident, things take an unexpected turn. Peter is found badly wounded. A little later he is buried. When Sava sees the coffin, she collapses. Dr. Antekirtt leaves the in the cemetery at night bier open coffin and bring Peters corpse on his ship. There he succeeds in bringing the apparently dead Peter back to life. On the island of Antekirtta, Peter is nursed to health and learns that Dr. Count Mathias Sandorf, who was believed to be dead and who managed to escape to Italy, arrived. There he has the name Dr. Antekirtt accepted and worked as a doctor in the Orient . He received a huge fortune for the healing of a terminally ill Indian princess and bought the island of Antekirtta from it.
In Ragusa, Sarcany still insists on marrying Sava, who has been sick since seeing Peter's coffin. When Toronthal's wife Gertrud learns that Sarcany is responsible for the attempted murder on Peter, she writes a letter to Peter's mother in which she confesses that her daughter is really Sava Sandorf. She then commits suicide .
Part 4 (ZDF, December 11, 1979)
Dr. Antekirtt lets Peter know about his plans. He wants all of his friends to find a home on the seemingly paradisiacal island. He also wants to punish the traitors of the Hungarian conspiracy and the traitor Carpena, who is responsible for the death of Ferrato, in a "hell" constructed especially for them on a side island. But Peter refuses to let Sava atone for the betrayal of her supposed father. On the way to Ragusa, the Savarena has a machine failure that Peter can only partially repair. The ship needs to be repaired in Malta , where Dr. Antekirtt happens to find Maria Ferrato again. He leaves Pescade and Matifou in Malta to protect Maria and her brother Luigi, because Carpena is said to be in Malta too. In Ragusa they learn that Sava is Sandorf's daughter, who, however, like Sarcany and Toronthal, has disappeared. Back in Malta they learn that Capena fled to Morocco with Zirone to meet the other traitors there. When the Savarena arrives in Morocco, the criminals flee into the desert, where they are captured after a fight.
In the “Hell” near Antekirtta, Count Sandorf confronts the traitors captured with their surviving victims and condemns them to death. Shortly afterwards on Antekirtta, Count Sandorf is persuaded by his friends to forget the past and let the traitors go free. Sandorf agrees, but Sarcany has been able to free itself and accidentally activates the self-destruction of the island "Hell". So all four traitors ultimately perish on the island.
Count Sandorf realizes that he is the last of his past and has his submarine "Elektrik II" ready for a very long journey ...
Others
- The four-part (six-part in Hungary) is a free adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jules Verne about the fictional character of Count Mathias Sandorf, a Hungarian revolutionary around 1860. Betrayed and persecuted, he swears cruel revenge. The theme is occasionally reminiscent of Dumas' " Count of Monte Christo ".
- About a third of the production, which cost around nine million marks, was co-financed by ZDF . The shooting lasted four months.
- As usual with the four-part adventure, the viewer is taken to touristic locations: in Hungary , Italy , Africa , Yugoslavia .
- One of the most exciting scenes was created in the stalactite caves of Postojna , today Slovenia . The escape from Sandorf and Bathory led through these dark, ice-cold caves. Amadeus August : "When we were shooting, we suddenly had a light failure and could hardly get out of the caves, many of which have not yet been explored".
- István Bujtor , who plays the title role of Mathias Sandorf, was a well-known actor in his native Hungary. He was named Best Actor of 1977.
media
literature
- Oliver Kellner & Ulf Marek: Seewolf & Co. - The great adventure four-part series of ZDF , Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, ISBN 3896026321
DVD
- "Mathias Sandorf", on two DVDs, Concorde Home Entertainment, appeared in 2007