Viking raid

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Movie
German title Viking raid
Original title The Long Ships
Country of production Great Britain , Yugoslavia
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jack Cardiff
script Beverley Cross
Berkely Mather
production Irving Allen
Denis O'Dell
music Charles Albertine
Dušan Radić
camera Christopher Challis
cut Geoffrey Foot
occupation
synchronization

Viking Raid is an adventure film by British director Jack Cardiff based on the novel The Adventures of Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson .

action

The Vikings Rolf lands after a shipwreck in the Moors ruled southern Spain and comes to secure its survival, as the narrator on. He tells a legend, which he heard from an Egyptian slave of his father, about a huge golden bell, which is called the "mother of all voices". When the Sheikh El Mansuh found out , who knew this legend and believed it to be true, he had the Viking captured immediately and wanted to find out from him the place where the bell was hidden through torture, but Rolf managed to escape to Scandinavia . Once there, he and his brother Orm steal the funeral ship of King Harald of Denmark , which Rolf's father made, Orm takes Harald's daughter Gerda, with whom he is secretly involved, hostage. At first there is resistance within the crew to go on a funeral ship, but when Rolf apparently offers Gerda as a human sacrifice, the superstitious opponents can be calmed down for the time being. In a fog bank they suddenly hear a bell ringing, and Rolf is convinced that this must be the "mother of all voices". A storm comes up, they are shipwrecked, are washed up again on the Moorish coast and captured by El Mansuh. While El Mansuh eats Gerda, ostensibly to find out from her where the bell is, an implied romance develops between Rolf and El Mansuh's main wife, Aminah. Ultimately, the sheikh forces the Vikings as prisoners to look for the bell with him.

After a long odyssey they reach a small chapel with a small golden bell in the middle. Out of anger at this "treasure", Rolf hits the bell against the dome, which sounds loudly booming, the actual large golden bell is camouflaged and walled in as a dome roof. El Mansuh has the "mother of all voices" brought to his royal seat, but is surprised there by King Harald and his men, who angrily followed the ship thief Rolf. After a long battle, the Vikings win, King Harald is reconciled with Rolf, who tries to win him over for a new treasure hunt for the big diamond in the crowns of the Saxon kings.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was created in 1964 in the studio of Elite Film Franz Schroeder GmbH, Berlin . Georg Laub wrote the dialogue book, and Heinz Giese directed the dubbing .

actor German speaker role
Richard Widmark Arnold Marquis Rolf
Sidney Poitier Herbert Weicker Sheikh El Mansuh
Russ Tamblyn Thomas Eckelmann Orm
Oskar Homolka Eduard Wandrey Croc
Clifford Evans Hans W. Hamacher King Harald of Denmark
Gordon Jackson Bruno W. Pantel Vahlin
Colin Blakely Joachim Nottke Rhykka
Beba Lončar Maria Koerber Gerda
Rosanna Schiaffino Renate Küster Aminah
Edward Judd Hans Wiegner Sven
Lionel Jeffries Asis
Paul Stassino Klaus Miedel Rasheed
Jeanne Moody Claudia Brodzinska Ylva

Reviews

“Elaborate adventure cinema with effective trick scenes and a lot of wear and tear on people and material. The wonderfully naive script is full of nonsense dialogues that are not meant to be funny. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viking raid in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved September 29, 2008
  2. ^ Viking raid. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used