Sierra Charriba
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sierra Charriba |
| Original title | Major Dundee |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , French , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 137 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| script | Sam Peckinpah, Oscar Saul , Harry Julian Fink |
| production | Jerry Bresler |
| music | Daniele Amfitheatrof |
| camera | Sam Leavitt |
| cut |
William A. Lyon , Howard Kunin , Don Starling |
| occupation | |
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Sierra Charriba (original title: Major Dundee ) is an American western directed by Sam Peckinpah from 1965.
action
Major Dundee, a Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War , is transferred to a POW camp in New Mexico for misconduct . After an army column and a family of ranchers have been massacred by Apaches led by Chief Sierra Charriba, Dundee sets up its own force. This force consists of whites and blacks, captured southern soldiers, Indian scouts and mercenaries. Led by Captain Tyreen, a former friend of Dundees who defected to the southern states, they pursue Sierra Charriba in Mexico .
Dundee's troops engage the Indians in some fighting. They get caught between the fronts of Mexicans and French who want to bring Emperor Maximilian to power in Mexico. They are joined by the Viennese widow of a Mexican country doctor who sympathizes with the rebels. Tensions arise between Dundee and Tyreen. The whole expedition threatens to fail when Dundee picks up the bottle and indulges in alcoholic excesses for weeks. Tyreen brings Dundee to their senses, and together they can ambush and take out Sierra Charriba. Tyreen dies in a fight against the French. A small remainder of the troop, led by Dundee, can escape back across the Rio Grande .
background
For the role of Samuel Potts, director Sam Peckinpah originally intended Lee Marvin . But his fee demand was too high for the studio. The shooting took place in Mexico. The studio wanted to fire Peckinpah during filming, but Charlton Heston , despite disagreements with Peckinpah, came out in favor of the director and even waived his fee.
Peckinpah made his third feature film with this film. "Probably the most painful experience of my career was with Major Dundee [(Sierra Charriba)] in 1964," Peckinpah said later. “It was commissioned like the other films, but it had become a story of its own. I like shady heroes. Major Dundee, who sacrifices his friend to his own ambitious goals, is an unhappy, morbidly disturbed man for whom one can not feel sympathy, but compassion. When Jerry Bresler struck and mutilated the film and shredded it to pieces, I was so bitten into the matter that it almost shocked me ”(quote from: Joe Hembus: Das Westernlexikon ). When Peckinpah resisted at the time, he was soon on the Hollywood blacklist and no longer got any jobs. A script that resulted in The Glorious Riders was given to his former friend Arnold Laven in 1965 .
The film was re-edited by the studio bosses to dilute Dundee's failure, and was released in theaters with a length of 123 minutes. The original version was 152 minutes long. In 2005, film restorers succeeded in finding fragments to add 137 minutes to the film. The remaining 15 minutes have so far been lost; that they can be restored is considered unlikely. The restored 14 minutes have not yet been dubbed in German. At this point, the original sound is reproduced with German subtitles in the case of television broadcasts and storage media in German synchronized version.
Reviews
For the film service , Sierra Charriba was an "unusual western that undermines the usual heroic glorification, puts complex losers in the foreground in terms of character and unadorned their questionable fetishism of violence". In doing so, however, he was "mutilated, defused and turned into conventional genre entertainment" by subsequent interventions by the producer. The Protestant film observer certified that the film was “a largely historically real reproduction of the time and the people in their struggles, sorrows and joys” and noted that “through the clear dramaturgical drawing of the various types […] their motifs and actions are easy to grasp ". The conclusion was: "Exciting entertainment for young and old."
Kay Pinno from dvdrome.com certified Peckinpah's great courage and skill in staging the film, but also pointed out the weak second half: “After a compact first half, the film stumbles back and forth between different subplots and loses its real goal - the pursuit of Charribas - out of sight. "This shows" the greatest weakness of the film "in the form of Senta Berger, who is misplaced" as a fiery Mexican "and as the" love interest of Dundee "and also" used dramatically incorrectly " be "like a stripper in church".
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Major Dundee | Charlton Heston | Helmo Kindermann |
| Captain Tyreen | Richard Harris | Reinhard Glemnitz |
| Sam Potts | James Coburn | Klaus W. Krause |
| Lt. Graham | Jim Hutton | Klaus Kindler |
| Teresa Santiago | Senta Berger | Senta Berger |
| Tim Ryan | Michael Anderson, Jr. | Horst Sachtleben |
| Sergeant Gomez | Mario Adorf | Mario Adorf |
| Aesop | Brock Peters | Gernot Duda |
| OW Hadley | Warren Oates | Wolfgang Hess |
| Sierra Charriba | Michael godfather | Herbert Weicker |
| Captain Waller | Karl Swenson | Wolf Rahtjen |
| Jimmy Lee Benteen | John Davis Chandler | Erich Ebert |
Web links
- Sierra Charriba in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sierra Charriba at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sierra Charriba - Extended Version . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2005 (PDF; test number: 33 457 DVD).
- ↑ Sierra Charriba. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique No. 147/1965, p. 287.
- ↑ See dvdrome.com
- ↑ Sierra Charriba. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 16, 2017 .