Taran and the magic cauldron

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Movie
German title Taran and the magic cauldron
Original title The Black Cauldron
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ted Berman ,
Richard Rich
script David Jonas,
Lloyd Alexander (novel)
production Ron Miller,
Joe Hale
music Elmer Bernstein
cut James Melton,
Jim Koford,
Armetta Jackson
synchronization

The Black Cauldron is an American animated film of Directors Ted Berman and Richard Rich from the year 1985 . It is the 25th full-length animation film from Walt Disney Studios and premiered on July 24, 1985 in the USA. In Germany it was released in cinemas on December 5, 1985. The plot is based on the first two books of Prydain's Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander .

action

Taran is a swineherd who dreams of a career as a great fighter. But he soon has to put his daydreams aside, as his prophetic pig Hen Wen is kidnapped by an evil ruler, the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen Wen can show him the way to the black cauldron that has the power to create a gigantic army of invincible undead. With the help of the stubborn Princess Eilonwy, a quick-tempered bard, and a harassing creature named Gurgi, Taran seeks to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. In meeting witches, elves, magical swords and the black cauldron itself, Taran learns what it really means to be a hero and that some things are more important than fame and glamor.

synchronization

The film was set to music at Berliner Synchron . Hans Joachim Herwald wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role Original speaker German speaker
Taran Grant Bardsley Frank Schaff
Princess Eilonwy Susan Sheridan Katja Primel
Flewdor Flam Nigel Hawthorne Hermann Ebeling
Dallben Freddie Jones Heinz Theo branding
Horned King John Hurt Joachim Kemmer
Doli John Byner Helmut Heyne
Gurgi John Byner Wolfgang number
King Eidilleg Arthur Malet Wolfgang Völz
Ordu Eda Reiss-Marin Bettina Schön
Orgoch Billie Hayes Maria ax
Orwen Adele Marie-Morey Almut Eggert
Cribble Phil Fondacaro Peter Matic
teller John Huston Joachim Nottke

Production history

  • The film cost about $ 44 million but grossed only $ 21 million, which is less than half. This makes it the least successful film in the masterpiece series after The Treasure Planet .
  • After Tron , Taran and the Cauldron is the second Walt Disney Studios film to contain computer-animated sequences.
  • After The Adventures of Ichabod and Taddäus Toad, Taran and the Magic Cauldron is the first Disney Studios film to be approved for ages 6+ by the FSK .
  • Hen's vision of the Horned King at the beginning of the film is a re-used scene from a sequence that appeared in Fantasia , the one with the music from A Night on Bald Mountain .
  • The later successful director Tim Burton worked as an illustrator for the film .
  • It is the first Disney cartoon that does not include singing.

Film cuts

About half a year before it was released in American cinemas, the new chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg , saw the finished film for the first time. The film music and animation had already been completed, but Katzenberg disagreed with what he saw. He found the film too brutal, so he cut out about thirteen minutes of footage. Elmer Bernstein , the composer of the music for Taran and the Magic Kettle , did not have time to adapt the music to the new cuts, which is why there are sometimes very noticeable jumps in the film music. The scene of the birth of the undead from the cauldron was cut heavily. Another cut sequence showed a soldier being decomposed by green fog. Nevertheless, the final version was the first full-length Disney cartoon to receive a PG from the MPAA . To date, the uncut version of the film has not been released on DVD or VHS.

Reviews

  • “Taran and the Magic Cauldron is Walt Disney's 25th full-length masterpiece. This film combines the inimitable perfection of Disney's masterpieces with the myths and fantasies of a bygone era. A film that all fantasy fans will get their money's worth. It is the first film in animation history to use computer-generated scenes and Dolby stereo sound. ” - Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon:
  • “A technically perfect fantasy cartoon from the Disney workshop, which entertains with bizarre mythical creatures. For a purely children's film, of course, it contains too few humorous and too much dark scenes, which do not gain any new aspects from the story of the struggle for good versus evil demonic forces. ” - “ Lexicon of international film ”. (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
  • “Taran and the Magic Cauldron is really not particularly original. For eighty minutes, the events simply roll off without any more than extremely superficial interaction between the characters. A feast for the eyes, sure. But little more. ” - Variety

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable .

Home theater publications

DVD

  • Taran and the magic cauldron . Special Collection. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002.
  • Taran and the magic cauldron . Special Collection. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2010 (reissue).
  • Disney Classics 24: Taran and the cauldron . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2017.

Soundtrack

  • Elmer Bernstein : The Black Cauldron. Original motion picture soundtrack. Varèse Sarabande, North Hollywood 1985, audio carrier no. VCD 47241 - Original recording of the film music by the Utah Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the composer (in addition to the official CD and LP releases, there is also a bootleg CD with the complete film music). In 2012 the complete soundtrack was re-mixed by Intrada (Oakland, CA).

Game variant

literature

  • Lloyd Alexander : Taran in the Land of Dark Forces. Arena, Würzburg 2001, 447 pages, ISBN 3-401-05280-2 . Contains: Taran and the magic pig. (Original title: The Book of Three ). Taran and the magic cauldron. (OT: The Black Cauldron ). and Taran and the magic cat. (OT: The Castle of Llyr ). German by Otfried Preußler and Roland Vocke .
  • Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf et al .: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 p. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Taran and the magic cauldron. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Listing at the IMDb
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kinderfilme.floi.at
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duckipedia.de
  5. ↑ Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon ( Memento from September 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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