Plague of the Jungle

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Movie
German title Plague of the Jungle
Original title La Mort en ce jardin
Country of production France , Mexico
original language French
Publishing year 1956
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Luis Buñuel
script Luis Alcoriza
Luis Buñuel
Raymond Queneau
Gabriel Arout
production Oscar Danciger
David Mage
music Paul Misraki
camera Jorge Stahl Jr.
cut Denise Charvein
Marguerite Renoir
Luis Buñuel
occupation
synchronization

German dubbing files

Breath of the jungle (original title: La Mort en ce jardin , German: "Death in this garden") is a Franco-Mexican adventure film by Luis Buñuel . The premiere of the original version took place in France on September 21, 1956. In Germany it was first shown in a censored version on March 21, 1958.

action

In a remote village of an unspecified South American country, workers and soldiers of fortune mine for diamonds , including the old Frenchman Castin. When police forces want to expropriate the owners of the diamond mines, protests break out, which are violently suppressed. Then the adventurer Chark appears, apparently an opponent of the ruling military regime, who finds a place to sleep with the prostitute Djin.

Soon there is an armed uprising of the diamond seekers, into which Castin and Chark are drawn. The military brutally suppresses the uprising, whereupon the wounded Castin has to flee and Chark is arrested. However, he soon escaped from the prison next to the church and blew up the army's ammunition dump. Father Lizardi tries to mediate between the military and the insurgents, but in view of the life-threatening situation Djin, Castin and his mute daughter Maria decide to flee on a small river steamer.

They arrive at the river early in the morning to drive off with the boat captain Chenko, who is a pimp as a part-time job. Father Lizardi would like to take the opportunity to proselytize among Indian tribes in the jungle. But Charky also seized the opportunity and overwhelmed Chenko. Although the group has a large lead, a fast military boat almost overtakes them within a day. Chark's only way out is to cross the jungle to Brazil . The captured Chenko knows the way, but he is able to get rid of his shackles that night, takes all the food with him and soon leads the group of soldiers chasing after him. When a gun battle breaks out between the two groups, in which Chenko is killed, the refugees are able to shake off the soldiers. But they get lost in the jungle and the hope of reaching their destination without supplies is constantly falling. In addition, the sick Castin becomes more and more apathetic and tensions rise within the group, which is plagued by strange dreams and hallucinations.

Finally, a crashed plane wreck seems to bring the rescue, especially since the other bank of a nearby lake is already in Brazil. In addition to food, the exhausted group will find champagne and valuables. However, the old Castin is completely delusional and shoots at the other group members. In the end, only two survivors remain who try to get to Brazil in a rubber dinghy.

background

The idea for the film is based on a French producer's suggestion to shoot a work in the style of Henri-Georges Clouzot's black and white film The Wages of Fear . In contrast to the latter, Buñuel's film was shot in Eastmancolor (35mm). Buñuel turned the literary model by José-André Lacour into an unusual adventure film with political and surreal elements that can be seen as a psychological reflection of Franco's Spain. However, a three-minute sequence of dream and shock images was censored in Germany. There were only a few seconds left of that, such as a killed snake being eaten by teeming ants and a sudden cut to images of Paris at night with cars honking and big city noises. But the picture turns into a postcard, which Castin, who wants to return to France, finally tears up.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction at film.at
  2. ↑ Reviewed in the New York Times on August 26, 1977, accessed October 26, 2016