My body for a game of poker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | My body for a game of poker |
| Original title | The Belle Starr story |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lina Wertmüller |
| script | Lina Wertmüller |
| production | Oscar Righini |
| music | Charles Dumont |
| camera | Alessandro D'Eva |
| cut | Renato Cinquini |
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My body for a poker game (original title: The Belle Starr story ) is a spaghetti western from 1967. Directed by Lina Wertmüller under the pseudonym Nathan Wich , who also wrote the screenplay as George Brown under a pseudonym. It is one of the few films in the genre in which a woman is at the center of the plot. German premiere was on October 11, 1968. The film's alternative title is Die Killer Lady .
content
Mirabelle grows up in a family in which her father does not tolerate contradiction and everyone has to submit to his whims. So he rapes the maid and wants to use vigilante justice to execute a young Indian girl. Mirabelle frees her and can kill a pursuer. She becomes the female outlaw Belle Starr . Since her father also died in her persecution, she is charged with his death. In a poker game, she loses to Blackie, who gives her one last chance to win back the money she wagered - the stake is herself. She throws away her winning hand and spends the following time with Blackie, with whom she from now on has a rival-loving relationship maintains. A bank robbery fails and Belle has to free her partner from prison.
Reviews
"Western with a criminalistic influence, whose meager plot has been blown up with brash idioms, sex and sadism."
"... that Belle cuckles in this tough dog (cf. Blackie) of all things is another parallel to the (cf. other) films by Wertmüller, which, despite all feminist claims, often contain heroines who throw themselves at such mega-machos. ( ...) A really fine and extremely interesting film. "
“Colored Italian sex westerns. Not worth much more than cheap 'artistic' stuttering. "
synchronization
- Elsa Martinelli: Beate Hasenau
- Robert Woods: Gert Günther Hoffmann
- Francesca Righini: Renate Danz
- Luigi Montefiori: Rainer Brandt
- Bruno Piergentili: Gerd Martienzen
- Vladimir Medar: Martin Hirthe
- Bruno Corazzari: Karlheinz Brunnemann
- Eugen Walter: Arnold Marquis
- Remo De Angelis: Arnold Marquis
Remarks
- Elsa Martinelli sings the song "No time for love" in the film.
- The film is the only spaghetti western that was directed by a woman.
- The German dubbing is penned by Rainer Brandt (who also speaks George Eastman ) and directed by Karlheinz Brunnemann - and therefore uses a dubbing in Schnodderdeutsch .
- Belle Starr wears black leather pants as an outlaw; only after getting to know Blackie does she put on a white dress.
Web links
- My body for a game of poker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Giovanni Charlo listed in the Lexicon of International Films does not exist; What is meant is the camera operator Giovanni Ciarlo
- ↑ a b My body for a poker game in the dictionary of international films
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 491/1968.
- ↑ http://www.synchronkartei.de/index.php?action=show&type=film&id=14058