Sindbad's seventh journey

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Movie
German title Sindbad's seventh journey
Original title The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Nathan Juran
script Ray Harryhausen ,
Ken Kolb
production Ray Harryhausen,
Charles H. Schneer
music Bernard Herrmann
camera Wilkie Cooper
cut Edwin H. Bryant ,
Jerome Thoms
occupation
synchronization

Sindbad's Seventh Voyage (Original title: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad ) is a fantasy / adventure film by director Nathan Juran from 1958 . Ray Harryhausen's special effects were impressive for the time. The film opened in German cinemas on December 5, 1958 and in Austrian cinemas on December 19.

action

home trip

Sindbad and his lover, Princess Parisa, are on their way home to Baghdad to get married there. On the island of Kolossa in Greece they meet the magician Sokurah, who is attacked by a cyclops . With the help of the Djinn , however, they manage to escape on Sindbad's ship. The magic lamp is lost.

Sokurah wants to go back to the island to look for the magic lamp. That is why he offers Sindbad gems and treasures as a reward. Sindbad refuses this offer and sails on towards Baghdad. There Sokurah asks the caliph of Baghdad, who loves Sindbad as much as his own son, to provide him with a ship and crew so that he can return to Colossa. Because of Sindbad's advice - “only a madman would return to Kolossa” - the caliph also refuses.

In order to return to the island, Sokurah secretly transforms the princess into a thumb-sized dwarf. Now Sinbad, the caliph and the princess' father, the sultan of Dschandra, discover the transformed princess. The marriage and peace between Baghdad and Jandra seem to have failed. The Sultan is shocked and threatens to declare war on Baghdad. Sindbad immediately looks for the magician Sokurah. Sokurah can reverse the transformation, but to do this, he needs the shell of an egg of the giant bird species Roch , which lives next to many cyclops on the island of Kolossa.

The adventures in Kolossa

The only way to save the wedding and the princess is now to return to Kolossa despite all the dangers. Sindbad, Sokurah, the princess and Sindbad's crew (including 25 prisoners, since Sindbad could not find any other men) travel back to the island. The prisoners decide to take over the ship, kill the crew and get rich as pirates or treasure hunters. Soon after, they take over the ship. As revenge, Sokurah casts a curse on them. After most of the inmates have gone mad at the screaming of the sirens, Sindbad and his friends take over the ship again and arrive the next morning.

To get to the mountains with the giant birds, they have to cross a huge valley with cyclops. Sokurah forms two groups so that one can save one another if the Cyclopes are arrested. But all he has in mind is to find the magic lamp, which is now in a treasure trove of the Cyclops. After a while, Sindbad and his group come across a Cyclops who takes them prisoner and then wants to grill a prisoner a little off the beaten track and then eat them up. Sokurah then discovers the cage, but does not free it, as he only needs the magic lamp. His group remains a little behind. The thumb-sized princess manages to open the bolt and free everyone. Sokurah now goes to the treasure chamber of the Cyclops, digs through the treasures for the lamp and finds it, but the Cyclops becomes attentive, leaves the fireplace and tries to catch Sokurah. Sokura's group arrives and a fight against the Cyclops breaks out. Sokurah loses the lamp.

The Cyclops is defeated and the prisoner is saved by Sindbad. Sindbad finds the lamp, but does not want to give it to Sokurah until he has brought the princess back to normal size. Sokurah now has to help the princess to get the lamp. Sindbad and his companions later arrive at a bird's nest with an unhatched egg. Sokurah, who knows how dangerous the birds are, recommends walking on until they find a hatched egg further up. Some of the men are hungry, however, and they break the egg and kill the young bird in order to grill it. Sindbad immediately takes a piece of eggshell. Soon after, the mother bird comes and kills some of Sindbad's men. Sindbad fights against the bird and tries to flee, while Sokurah kills Sinbad's companion Harufa and sneaks away with the princess.

The rescue of the princess

Sokurah kidnaps the princess to his secret underground castle on the island. With the help of the lamp, Sindbad, who escaped the bird, also reaches the castle. There Sokurah pretends that he has prepared everything for the enlargement of the princess and that he has no nasty ulterior motives. With the help of the eggshell, the princess will grow back to normal. Since Sokurah Sindbad seems scary, he doesn't want to give him the lamp until they are safe on the ship again. Sokurah tries to have Sindbad killed by a skeleton brought to life. Sindbad and Parissa manage to save themselves. To free the lamp spirit, they throw the lamp into a lava flow.

When Sindbad and the princess flee, they come across a cyclops. Sindbad releases the huge caged dragon that guards Sokurah's castle in order to save himself and Parissa from the Cyclops. Now the dragon fights the Cyclops while Sindbad and Parissa flee to the ship. The dragon kills the Cyclops and is urged by Sokurah to follow Sindbad and Parissa and kill them. On the beach, the crew operated a huge crossbow that they had taken from Baghdad to defend against the Cyclops. The dragon is shot with the crossbow and kills Sokurah.

Sindbad, Parisa and the redeemed genie Baronni, who brought the Cyclops treasure for the couple as a wedding present, sail to Baghdad, where the wedding is to be celebrated.

synchronization

The German synchronized editing was created in 1958.

role actor Voice actor
Sindbad Kerwin Mathews Gert Günther Hoffmann
Princess Parisa Kathryn Grant Margot Leonard
Sokurah, the magician Torin Thatcher Fritz Tillmann
Caliph of Baghdad Alec Mango Paul Wagner
Sultan of Shandra Harold Kasket Siegfried Schürenberg

Awards

The film was nominated for the Hugo Award . In 2008 he was inducted into the National Film Registry .

Reviews

  • “Effective adventure film in colorful oriental fairy tale clothing, which draws its charm from the outstanding special effects by Ray Harryhausen.” - Lexicon of international films
  • “Effective adventure film in colorful oriental fairy tale clothing. [...] Entirely geared towards the joy of watching, something to be amazed and scary. Some scenes less suitable for children. ”- 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 .
  • “[...] Adventure fairy tales based on motifs from '1001 Nights', which became famous because of the special effects by Ray Harryhausen; exciting, scary and enjoyable entertainment. ”(Rating: 3 stars = very good) - Lexicon“ Films on TV ”.
  • “Sindbad's seventh journey does not lead to the land of 'A Thousand and One Nights', but straight to the technically perfected horror cinema. We therefore advise young and old against watching this film. ”- Protestant film observer

media

DVD publications

  • 2000 Sindbad's 7th Trip , Columbia Tristar Home Video

BluRay releases

  • 2008 Sindbad's 7th Journey - 50th Anniversary Edition , Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Soundtrack

  • The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. An Original Soundtrack Recording of the Bernard Herrmann Score . Varèse Sarabande, North Hollywood 1980, VCD 47256 - original recording under Bernard Herrmann's direction
  • The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Varèse Sarabande Film Classics . Varèse Sarabande and Universal Music, Studio City 1998, VSD-5961 - digital re-recording of the complete film music; it plays the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the direction of John Debney

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sindbad's seventh journey (1958) in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved September 17, 2010
  2. ↑ Sindbad's seventh journey. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 11, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Handbook V of the Catholic Film Critics, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 396.
  4. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV". (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 750.
  5. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 800/1958