Sing cowboy sing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sing cowboy sing |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dean Reed |
| script | Dean Reed |
| production | DEFA , "Johannisthal" group |
| music | Karel Svoboda |
| camera | Hans Heinrich |
| cut | Ruth Ebel |
| occupation | |
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Sing, Cowboy, Sing is a DEFA - Western comedy of Dean Reed from the year 1981. It was the sixth and last DEFA film, starred in the Dean Reed.
action
The rodeo riders Joe and Beny earn their living with demonstrations in which cowboy Joe catches Beny disguised as an Indian with a lasso. They also appear as jugglers and singers and move from town to town to make ends meet. When Joe gives a woman a feather after a rodeo show, her daughter Susann from Leansville is so impressed that she secretly hides in Joe and Beny's covered wagon and is only discovered by both of them after the car has long left town. They telegraph from the next town, Hiddenjunction, to Leansville that they have found Susann and will bring her to her mother. According to the last will of her grandfather, she wants to marry the dark Dave Arnold, who in turn is only after her country. He has a wanted list searched for Joe and Beny, since he accuses them of kidnapping Susann. In an exchange of fire with the “kidnappers”, Susann, who is critical of Arnold, is said to be killed. In fact, Susann only smuggled herself into Joe's car because she sees him as the ideal father.
When the sheriff of Hiddenjunction learns that Joe and Beny are wanted, both have to flee the city. They also leave Rosecity after they got into prison after a fight and thanks to Susann's help they escape. They are also helped by the attractive blonde Silvia, who falls in love with Beny. On their escape, Joe, Beny and Susann finally come to Liebenthal, founded by Germans and run by the resolute python. The village has been resisting Dave Arnold's takeover attempts for some time. He in turn learns that Joe and Beny want to team up with the python and comes to Liebenthal with some thugs, including the sheriffs of Leansville, Rosecity and Hiddenjunction. It comes to a showdown in which Joe, Beny, Susann and also Silvia defeat the opponents. Susann's mother Maria, who found out about the attack on Liebenthal and has come to town, embraces her daughter. Joe is also taken into the family, while Beny gets together with Silvia.
production
Sing, Cowboy, sing was filmed in 1980 and had its premiere on June 12, 1981 in Gera on the open-air stage of the former Thälmann Pioniere Square. On August 2, 1989, the film also ran in Germany .
Dean Reed sings the songs Thunder and Lightning and Susan in the film . Václav Neckář sings the title A Cowboy .
Paton Price, with whom Dean Reed took acting lessons early in his career, plays a minor role as a hotel owner.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Dean Reed | Holger Mahlich |
| Beny | Václav Neckář | Uwe Karpa |
| Maria | Violeta Andrei | Sigrid Göhler |
| Dave Arnold | Iurie Darie | Alfred Struwe |
| Sheriff of Hiddenjunction | Helena Růžičková | Eva Schäfer |
| Deputy Sheriff of Hiddenjunction | Jiří Růžička | Carl Heinz Choynski |
| Sheriff of Leansville | Vlad Radescu | Horst Manz |
| Deputy Sheriff of Leansville | Ion Dorutio | Willi Neuenhahn |
| Ned | Christian Sofron | Detlef Giess |
| hotel owner | Paton Price | Detlef Witte |
| Ned's mother | Elena Sereda | Gertraud Kreissig |
criticism
Renate Holland-Moritz criticized in 1981 that Dean Reed, as a director, “unfortunately cannot differentiate between intelligent joke and absurd triviality as much as between real feeling and cheap sentiment. The gags that follow one another here rarely get over the belt. What is meant funny looks ridiculous. "
For the lexicon of international films , the film was "a failed attempt at a western parody for children, which only offers slapstick entertainment at the lowest level with rough dialogues."
Cinema called the film “trash with a socialist touch” and “absolutely amateurish slapstick”.
Web links
- Sing, Cowboy, sing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sing, cowboy, sing at filmportal.de
- Detailed information about the film with a press review
- Sing, cowboy, sing at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renate Holland-Moritz in: Eulenspiegel , No. 26, 1981.
- ↑ Sing, cowboy, sing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de