Black panthers

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Movie
Original title Black panthers
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Josef Mach
script Dorothea Richter
Paul Berndt
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Helmut Nier
camera Jaroslav Tuzar
cut Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa
occupation

Black Panther is a German DEFA feature film by Josef Mach from 1966. Alongside 1-2-3 Corona , Carola Lamberti - One of the Circus and Alarm in the Circus, it is one of the few DEFA circus films.

action

Martina Carvelli works at the Orion Circus with her father on the Perch. It turns out that she is not free from giddiness and can therefore no longer perform the artistic exercises. Her father finds it difficult to accept that the joint career with his daughter is not possible. In Christina, however, he finds an artistic replacement for Martina and soon he finds love.

Meanwhile Martina is looking for a new field of work in the circus. She works as an usher and girl for everything, but is not satisfied with her life. One day ten black panthers come to the circus as a new attraction. The animals are trained by the carnivore keeper Paul and shown in front of the audience by the trainer Dittrich. Martina also wants to work with the panthers. Dittrich, who has fallen in love with her, prevents this, as he knows what it is like when the animals attack suddenly. When Paul takes her into the cage to train, Dittrich reacts uncontrollably.

Martina gets a little clown act to fill the pause, which is successful, but doesn't let her work with animals. She secretly practices with one of the new panthers who soon trusts her. However, because she has no chance to officially work with animals, she applies to a zoo where she wants to be trained as a zoo keeper . She is accepted.

Your last day at the circus brings a lot of goodbyes. Sea lions have just arrived as a new attraction for the next season. Martina does her clown act one last time and secretly watches Dittrich's panther dressage. It goes differently than planned: Since Dittrich is nervous because he could not find Martina and say goodbye to her, he sent the additional assistant Paul to search for Martina. When the panthers sense Dittrich's nervousness, they become aggressive and threaten to attack Dittrich. Martina gets into the circus ring and can calm the animals. The rest of the performance goes according to plan. The ringmaster has recognized Martina's talent and wants to keep her at the circus. He offers her to train the sea lions from the beginning and to practice a circus act with them. Martina accepts the offer. She returns to Dittrich and they both embrace.

production

Black Panther was filmed with well-known artists from the 1960s. In addition to the clowns Jule and Bubi, embodied by the artists Julius and August Ehmke, you can see Hanno Coldam's black panthers, which were world-famous at the time. Coldam himself appears in his popular number "Razor Lions" as a clown with a lion.

Black Panther premiered on August 5, 1966 and was first shown on DFF 1 on October 7, 1967 . In 2007 the film was released on DVD as part of the Circus Circus series by Icestorm.

criticism

The film mirror praised the artistic performances as “appropriately photographed”, while other critics criticized the cliché nature of the film.

For the lexicon of international film , the Black Panther was "a poorly staged circus film in which the artistic interludes alone reach a satisfactory level."

Cinema called the film a "television circus without big numbers".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Salow: Without a network into the 'happy end' . In: Filmspiegel , No. 18, 1966, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Albrecht in Film-Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen , No. 3/4, 1966, p. 888ff.
  3. ↑ Black panthers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 6, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Black panthers. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 6, 2018.