Pirates (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pirates |
| Original title | Pirates |
| Country of production | France , Tunisia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| script | Roman Polański, Gérard Brach |
| production | Tarak Ben Ammar |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Witold Sobociński |
| cut |
Hervé de Luze William H. Reynolds |
| occupation | |
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Pirates (Original title: Pirates ) is a French feature film in English directed by Roman Polański from 1986.
action
Captain Red is a pirate captain straight from a picture book. With a wooden leg, gold jewelry and exaggerated clothing. He spent four years on a lonely island with the young Frenchman Jean-Baptiste, whom he calls "Frog". They managed to escape the island on a raft, but hunger gnaws. You are rescued by a Spanish galleon . On the galleon, Red discovers the ship's cargo: a golden throne of an Aztec king. Red causes a mutiny of the crew and can take over the ship as captain.
The team celebrates their success on a pirate island. But the Spaniard Don Alfonso can outsmart the pirates and seize the ship again in the night and flee. What remains, however, is the niece of the governor of Maracaibo , Maria Dolores, who has fallen in love with Jean-Baptiste. With this deposit, Captain Red sets off to Maracaibo, where the Spanish galleon went. They enter the heavily fortified port city undetected and gain access to the governor's bedchamber. They force him to write a paper authorizing Red to take over the golden throne from the ship. The plan succeeds and Red regains possession of the throne. Together with Jean-Baptiste and the throne, he rowed out of the harbor at night. However, the port's heavy iron cordon was his undoing. You try to lift the throne over the chain. In doing so, however, they lose their rowboat and have to spend the night sitting on the chain with the throne. In the morning they are arrested by the Spanish.
The pirate colleagues can free the condemned Red and Jean-Baptiste from the fortress and then chase the galleon with the throne. The ship is on its way to Spain. Red boarded the ship with his people and was able to take the throne again. However, he loses his ship and, like at the beginning of the film, drifts with Jean-Baptiste on a small boat, but with a golden throne on the sea.
background
The ship Neptune shown in the film was built especially for the film according to Polański's statements and was supposed to represent an authentic Spanish ship of the line from the period between 1680 and 1710. A total of 2,000 people worked on this ship for two years (construction cost 8.2 million dollars). The 70-cannon three-decker is 63 meters long and 16.4 meters wide. The displacement is over 2,000 tons with a dead weight of 1,500 tons. The ship, shown in the film with full sails, is seaworthy and can sail at a speed of up to five knots (approx. Nine km / h ). After the shooting, the Carthago Films company decided to turn the Neptune into a film museum and opened it to visitors. She is currently on the quay of the old port of Porto Antico in Genoa ( location ).
synchronization
The German synchronization was commissioned by Rainer Brandt Filmproduktions GmbH , for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Rainer Brandt .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Captain Red | Walter Matthau | Wolfgang Völz |
| Jean-Baptiste | Cris Campion | Torsten Sense |
| Don Alfonso de la Torre | Damien Thomas | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Maria Dolores | Charlotte Lewis | Judith Brandt |
| Boomaco | Olu Jacobs | Ronald Nitschke |
| Captain Linares | Ferdy Mayne | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Dr. Surgeon | David Kelly | Franz Otto Kruger |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the production as a “very costly, but unfortunately disappointing new edition of the classic pirate film” and stated: “Except for the absurd comedy of the introductory scene, a relatively impersonal film with which Roman Polański enters the adventurous genre Wanted to set a monument, but he rides it to death without any pace or tension. ”However, Walter Matthau in the main role is“ excellent ”.
For Cinema , the film was a “simple costume show without a joke”.
Awards
The film was awarded a César in the categories of Best Costumes and Best Production Design . He also received an Oscar nomination for the costumes by Anthony Powell .
Editions
Piraten was released on VHS-Video , DVD-Video and BluRay with cut lengths of 96 minutes and age rating FSK 12. The unabridged version with a running time of 120 minutes was broadcast on ARD .
Web links
- Pirates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEPTUNE. In: Arbeitskreis historical Schiffbau eV January 1, 2007, archived from the original on June 15, 2012 ; accessed on November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Pirates. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Pirates. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Pirates. In: online film database. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Pirates. In: programm.ARD.de. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .