Rambo III

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Movie
German title Rambo III
Original title Rambo III
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Peter MacDonald
script Sylvester Stallone
Sheldon Lettich
production Buzz Feitshans
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera John Stanier
cut O. Nicholas Brown
Andrew London
James Symons
Edward Warschilka
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Rambo II - The Order

Successor  →
John Rambo

Rambo III is an American action film released in 1988. It is the third installment in the Rambo series with Sylvester Stallone in the title role. The film opened in German cinemas on July 14, 1988.

action

John J. ( James ) Rambo has settled in a Thai monastery and is helping with construction work on the monastery complex. On the side he earns money by fighting stick fights in nearby Bangkok . Colonel Samuel Trautman, Rambo's former instructor who prepared him for the Vietnam War and commanded him in Vietnam, wants to win him over to a mission in Afghanistan . He is supposed to support the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet army . However, Rambo refuses this order:

"My time is up, [...] that is, my war is over."

Trautman travels to Afghanistan without Rambo and is worn out by Soviet troops with his unit during a night drive through the mountains. The survivors are imprisoned in a Soviet base and Trautman is tortured and interrogated by Colonel Zaysen and his henchman Kourow. The embassy employee Robert Griggs informed Rambo about the capture of Trautman, whereupon he decided to undertake a rescue operation not officially authorized by the US government. Rambo meets the arms dealer Moussa in Pakistan, who equips him and leads him to a remote village in the Afghan desert.

The mujahiddin are reluctant to help Rambo with his rescue operation as they wait for reinforcements to arrive from the Pakistani border. Meanwhile, an employee from Moussa's shop informs the Soviet military of Rambo's whereabouts, whereupon Colonel Zaysen flies an air raid on the village and kills many residents, including women and children. After Rambo shoots down one of the helicopters with an anti-aircraft cannon , the Soviet troops stop fighting. Together with Moussa and a boy named Hamidi, Rambo sets off to the Soviet military base, the starting point of the Soviet attack and whereabouts of Colonel Trautman. The first attempt to free Trautman from captivity under cover of darkness fails. Both Rambo and Hamidi are wounded, but they manage to escape from the fortress.

The following day, Rambo returns to the base alone and penetrates to the torture chamber where Trautman is being held. After Rambo freed some prisoners, he flies the group out of the base in a hijacked Soviet helicopter. The helicopter is shot at by Soviet troops and falls into a ravine outside the base. Rambo continues the escape on foot with Trautman. In a cave system, Rambo can rub down his pursuer Kourow and his unit with a compound bow . Within sight of the rescuing Pakistani border, Rambo and Trautman are intercepted by Colonel Zaysen and his armored brigade. At the last moment armed mujahiddin unexpectedly ride onto the battlefield and support Rambo and Trautman against the numerically and technically superior Soviet troops. In the final battle Rambo rams with a Russian main battle tank T-72 the combat helicopters of the type Mil Mi-24 by Colonel Zaysen and kills him. He himself survived the collision and continued the return journey to Pakistan with Trautman.

synchronization

The German synchronization was commissioned by Berliner Synchron , and Ronald Nitschke was responsible for the dialogue direction and the German dialogue book.

role actor speaker
John J. Rambo Sylvester Stallone Thomas Danneberg
Col. Samuel Trautman Richard Crenna Friedrich W. Building School
Colonel Zaysen Marc de Jonge Jürgen Kluckert
Griggs Kurtwood Smith Engelbert von Nordhausen
Masoud Spiros Focás Helmut Krauss
Mousa Sasson Gabai Yekta Arman
Hamid Doudi Shoua Florian Bathke
Kourow Randy Raney Ronald Nitschke

Age ratings

The original version of the film was indexed in Germany for a long time , but was prematurely removed from the index in March 2011. After that, she received an age rating from 18 years, which since the amendment of the Youth Protection Act 2003 protects against re-indexing. As long as the original version was indexed, only shortened versions were allowed to be shown on free TV . The FSK-18 video version was cut into 4 scenes and contained a cropped image format.

Trivia

Sylvester Stallone advertises Rambo 3 in Sweden in 1988
  • The film was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most brutal film in the 1990s, as it recorded 221 acts of violence and 108 deaths.
  • Rambo 3 was awarded the title “valuable” in 1988 by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW) , which led to severe criticism of the authority.
  • The budget for the film was 63 million US dollars , and Rambo III grossed around 190 million US dollars at box offices worldwide.
  • According to various sources, the original version ends with the words This film is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan . In all previously published German home video or TV versions it says instead: This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan or This film is dedicated to the brave people of Afghanistan .
  • The 1993 action comedy Hot Shots! The second attempt parodies Rambo III and various actors in the film. Richard Crenna also plays a colonel in the US Army and superiors of the main character in this film.
  • The combat helicopters used by the Soviets are not authentic aircraft, but Aérospatiale Super Puma and Aérospatiale Gazelle with attached stub wings. Due to the political situation at the time of the shooting, it was not possible to procure real Russian attack helicopters of the Mi-24 and Mi-28 types .
  • The amulet that Rambo received in Rambo II - The Order from his Vietnamese liaison agent Co Bao as a good luck charm , he passed on to the Afghan child soldier Hamidi the Mujahideen.
  • John Rambo , the fourth installment in the Rambo series, didn't hit theaters until about twenty years later, on February 14, 2008. Rambo: Last Blood followed in 2019.
  • The German first broadcast took place on April 30, 1991 from 11 p.m. on RTLplus in a shortened version.
  • The novel Rambo III by David Morrell is a book about the film. Rambo, who deliberately murdered in the original Morrell novel, had died at the end of the first novel.

Reviews

"Bloody action cinema that annoys foolish Cold War-style propaganda and slips into involuntary comedy when trying to stylize the hero as a mythical figure."

- Lexicon of international film

“Rambo's $ 60 million trip to the Taliban grossed three times as much, but was nowhere near the success of its predecessors. Was it because of glasnost at the end of the Cold War or because of the sayings that are as hollow as empty cartridge cases? "

- TV movie

“Sylvester Stallone again as a larger than life lone fighter. The archaic spectacle may deserve the title 'valuable' or it may preach questionable morality, but it is always ultra-perfect action cinema. "

- kino.de

“In any case, this Rambo film turns out to be an adventure and action film with strong fairytale features. Typical for this is the black-and-white drawing of good and bad by the main actors, their immense commitment, which goes beyond anything humanly possible, which does not fear and need not fear any risk to life and limb, and the unrestrained use of all resources at their disposal stand, the straightforwardness and one-dimensionality of the plot as well as the characters, the colorful, increasing and at some point precipitous variety of events. Almost all of these moments are remarkably well staged in accordance with the requirements of the genre - both by the script and by the direction, particularly skillful with the camera and assembly, but also skillfully in the pyrotechnics, the crowd scenes and the work of the many stuntmen, appropriately too in the selection and management of the actors. "

- Jury statement of the FBW (1988)

Awards and nominations

price category person result
Golden Raspberry Worst actor Sylvester Stallone Won
Worst script Nominated
Sheldon Lettich Nominated
Worst supporting actor Richard Crenna Nominated
Worst movie Mario Kassar Nominated
Buzz Feitshans Nominated
Andrew G. Vajna Nominated
Worst director Peter MacDonald Nominated

literature

  • David Morrell: Rambo. 3 novels in one volume. The three bestsellers by David Morrell for the films with Sylvester Stallone . 4th edition. Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-03789-8 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Rambo III  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Rambo III . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 60 094-b V).
  2. ↑ Rambo III. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=2637
  4. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=2656
  5. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=5171375
  6. ↑ Shoots and sweats - "Rambo III" was awarded the title "valuable" - protests are hailing . DER SPIEGEL 33/1988, August 15, 1988
  7. ↑ a b Rating “valuable” for Rambo 3 , accessed on August 7, 2012
  8. ↑ German first broadcast
  9. ↑ Rambo III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ Rambo III. In: TV feature film. Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Rambo III. In: kino.de. Retrieved April 21, 2012 .