Time bandits

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Movie
German title Time bandits
Original title Time bandits
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Terry Gilliam
script Terry Gilliam,
Michael Palin
production Terry Gilliam,
George Harrison ,
Denis O'Brien
music Mike Moran
camera Peter Biziou
cut Julian Doyle
occupation
synchronization

Time Bandits is a fantasy film from 1981 and one of the first great successes of the British production company HandMade Films , which previously produced the film The Life of Brian in collaboration with Monty Python .

action

Eleven-year-old Kevin, who is interested in history, dreams one night of a knight jumping out of his closet with his horse. The following night he waits again and goes to bed with a Polaroid camera and a flashlight. That night no knight comes, but six dwarfs, whom he joins. The dwarves have stolen a map from the Supreme Being , which shows all the remaining holes in the universe. Through these holes it is possible to travel to different ages. The dwarves want to take advantage of this to enrich themselves.

The first time hole leads the dwarves, who go by the names Randall, Wally, Fidgit, Strutter, Og and Vermin, and Kevin into the battle of Castiglione . Napoleon , who likes it when little people beat each other on stage, appoints the dwarfs to be generals after a theater performance. He is promptly robbed. The second trip takes the group, which Kevin has since joined, to the Middle Ages, where they meet Robin Hood . Pursued by the Supreme Being who wants his card back, Kevin flees into a time hole that leads him to ancient Greece . There he meets the king Agamemnon and saves his life in a duel with a Minotaur . In return, Agamemnon takes the boy in as his son.

A short time later, however, the dwarves reappear and take Kevin with them on the Titanic . After this sinks, the dwarves decide to travel to the Age of Legends . There they meet a grouchy ogre with a backache, a bald giant and, when the dwarfs with Kevin after a long walk through a wasteland reach the fortress of darkness, evil personified, who also wants to take possession of the map.

They are lured into a trap by this and locked in a cage. After they were able to free themselves from this, they try to wrest the card from the evil again, but this turns out to be impossible. Even with tools from different ages - knights, archers, cowboys, tanks and spaceships - they do not succeed in defeating evil.

When everything seems in vain, the Supreme Being appears, in the form of an elderly gentleman in a suit with a tie, who puts an end to the spook and explains that everything was just a test to test his creation and the evil it entails deliver. On the orders of the Supreme Being, who appears as an honorable manager, the humble hurrying dwarves clean up the rubble caused by the fighting in the fortress of darkness. Then the dwarfs disappear with the Supreme Being, leaving the boy Kevin behind. After this was fogged by a cloud of evil smoke, Kevin finally wakes up in his bed at home and, back in reality, is rescued from his family's house on fire by the fire department. In front of the burning house, his parents are killed after touching a piece of evil, namely in the form of a smoking lump of carbon that was forgotten during the cleanup. In addition, the bearded King Agamemnon appears as a firefighter, winking at Kevin and driving away in a fire brigade's vehicle with a flashing blue light.

Reviews

“A fantastic adventure film, set somewhere between a parody and a tricky dream fairy tale, spiced with a lot of British humor. An elaborate and effective conversation, despite some formal inconsistencies, amusing and sometimes even profound conversation. The complex plot and the parodic subtleties should only fully open up to the adult viewer. "

- Lexicon of international film

synchronization

role actor Dubbing voice
Kevin Craig Warnock Carlo Beddies
Randall David Rappaport Günter Pfitzmann
Wally Jack Purvis Jürgen Kluckert
Fidgit Kenny Baker Hugo Schrader
Strutter Malcom Dixon Hans Hessling
Above Mike Edmonds Otto Czarski
Min Tiny Ross Herbert Weissbach
The evil David Warner Klaus Miedel
Napoleon Ian Holm Rolf Schult
Robin Hood John Cleese Wolfgang Pampel
Agamemnon Sean Connery Gert Günther Hoffmann
Pansy Shelley Duvall Renate Danz
Vincent Michael Palin Jürgen Thormann
Winston the ogre Peter Vaughan Arnold Marquis
Mrs. Ogre Katherine Helmond Edith Hancke
Supreme Being Ralph Richardson Wolfgang Buettner

Premieres

  • UK 10th July 1981
  • Federal Republic of Germany March 18, 1982

Awards

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was never released. The title "Dream Away", which can be heard in the credits, was composed and sung by George Harrison and is included on his 1982 album Gone Troppo .

background

  • In addition to the two following films Brazil from 1985 and The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen from 1988, the film Time Bandits represents the first part of the trilogy of the imagination by director Terry Gilliam . In these three films, the longing of people should come to Gilliam, ours To escape difficult, orderly society with fantasy and imagination: In Time Bandits you see the attempt to escape from the real world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy, in Brazil through the eyes of a boy in his thirties and in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen through the Eyes of an aged man.
  • The short actor Kenny Baker (1934-2016) can be seen in the role of the dwarf Fidgit , who played the white droid R2-D2 in the Star Wars films .
  • In a double supporting role, namely both in the Sherwood Forest by Robin Hood, played by John Cleese , and on the Titanic, the actress Shelley Duvall appears under the role name Pansy , who played the female lead in the 1980 psychological thriller Shining by director Stanley Kubrick impersonated alongside actor Jack Nicholson .
  • The German dubbing voice of the dwarf Randall is spoken by the actor Günter Pfitzmann , who played the role of the doctor in the ARD television series Praxis Bülowbogen from 1987 to 1996. Peter Brockmann embodied and thus enjoyed great popularity in German-speaking countries. As a testimonial , Pfitzmann also shot TV commercials for the alcoholic praline brand Edle Drops with his sonorous voice .
  • Actor David Rappaport, who played the dwarf Randall , suffered from depression and killed himself on May 2, 1990 when Rappaport shot himself in the chest in Laurel Canyon Park in the San Fernando Valley , California .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Time Bandits . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 52 997 V).
  2. ↑ Time Bandits. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 18, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Entry in the synchronized file