Shots under the gallows

Movie
Original title	Shots under the gallows
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1968
length	108 minutes
Rod
Director	Horst Seemann
script	Horst Seemann, Wolfgang Held (scenario)
production	DEFA , Artistic Working Group "Babelsberg"
music	Wolfram Heicking
camera	Jürgen Brauer
cut	Erika Lehmphul
occupation
Werner Kanitz : David Balfour Alena Procházková : Catriona Thomas Weisgerber : Alan Breck Herwart Grosse : Alexander Balfour / Ebenezer Balfour Hans Hardt-Hardtloff : Captain Werner Lierck : Joe Jochen Thomas : Shepherd Helmut Schreiber : Boatswain Peter Dommisch : helmsman Edgar Külow : Red Fox Gerd E. Schäfer : McMac Charles Herbert Köfer : McCharles Kati Székely : Katherine Gerry Wolff : Sir Gluny Nico Turoff : Executioner Fred Delmare : Mr. No. Horst Papke : Corporal Fred Düren : Farmer Scott Traudl Kulikowsky : Ellen Monica Bielenstein : Peggy Gerd Ehlers : Merchant Barry Rosemarie Herzog : Farmer's wife Scott Axel Triebel : old officer Fred Kötteritzsch : Pastor Gertrud Brendler : Old farmer's wife Carmen-Maja Antoni : girls Ernst-Georg Schwill : Young sailor Paul Arenkens : Stink Tooth Berko Acker : Sailor Berndt Renne : Sailor

Shots gallows is a DEFA -Abenteuerfilm who on motives of the novel Kidnapped ( Kidnapped , 1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson based. Directed by Horst Seemann , who wrote the script based on a scenario by Wolfgang Held . The film was produced by the DEFA Studio for Feature Films, Artistic Working Group (KAG) “Babelsberg”.

The film premiered on June 22, 1968 in the Schwerin open-air theater, almost two years later, on August 1, 1970, it was broadcast for the first time on the first program of German television .

action

Scotland around 1750: the young David Balfour lives in poor circumstances, because his father barely makes ends meet as a teacher. Shortly before the father dies, he reveals to David that he is the actual heir to Balfour Castle. The castle is currently inhabited by David's greedy and power hungry Uncle Ebenezer.

Ebenezer captures David while he is inspecting his rightful legacy. He plans to sell David to America as a slave, but David finds supporters in the peasants who suffer from Ebenezer's rule as well as in the aristocrat Alan Breck and the beautiful farmer's daughter Catriona. David finally defeats Ebenezer, but does without Balfour Castle in order to be able to lead a simple life with Catriona.

Reviews

"Adventure film based on motifs by R. L. Stevenson, which takes an ironic distance from the romantic content of the original and imposes inappropriate social criticism on the story."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Shots gallows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Shots under the gallows at filmportal.de
• Shots under the gallows at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Shots under the gallows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2016 .