Time bandits
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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 |
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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 |
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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. "
synchronization
role | actor | Dubbing voice |
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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
- 1982: Saturn Award - Received the President's Memorial Award
- 1982: Saturn Award - nomination for Best Director for Terry Gilliam
- 1982: Saturn Award - nomination in the category of best international film
- 1982: Saturn Award - nomination in the category Best Special Effects for Jon Bunker
- 1982: Saturn Award - Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Craig Warnock
- 1982: Saturn Award nomination for Best Screenplay for Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin
- 1982: Hugo Award - nomination in the category Best Dramatic Presentation
- 1983: International Fantasy Film Award - nomination in the category Best Film
- 2005: Golden Satellite Award - nomination in the Best Classic DVD category
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
- Time Bandits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Time Bandits . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 52 997 V).
- ↑ Time Bandits. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Entry in the synchronized file