Troll 3
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| German title | Troll 3 |
| Original title | Quest for the Mighty Sword |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Joe D'Amato |
| script | Joe D'Amato |
| production | Carlo Maria Cordio |
| music | Carlo Maria Cordio |
| camera | Joe D'Amato |
| cut | Kathleen Stratton |
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Troll 3 (Original title: Quest for the Mighty Sword ) is an Italian barbarian film from 1990. Contrary to the German film title, which suggests a continuation of the Troll series, the fantasy film is a latecomer in the Ator film series, which also led to it an alternative title ( Ator III: The Hobgoblin ) indicates. Main actor Eric Allan Kramer replaces Miles O'Keeffe from the previous two parts. The script and direction are by David Hills , a pseudonym of the Italian Aristide Massaccesi ; better known as Joe D'Amato.
The film was broadcast on German television under the title Ator - The Sword of Power ; Another alternative title is Troll - Part 3 . The film was marketed in Germany on VHS from November 1991 .
Laura Gemser worked as a costume designer for this film ; nevertheless she also took on the supporting role of Grimilde.
action
In the past , a wise king, called Ator, received the mystical "Sword of the Holy Grail" from the deity Troll to enable justice and peace to the suffering people. Years later, the dark deity reclaims the two-handed sword . When the regent refuses to release, however, he is killed by the angry being. The relic breaks into two parts. Queen Sunn courageously takes on the fragments and, anticipating death, flees to the old gnome Grindel with her little son, Ator junior . Desperate, she asks the childless little one to raise the boy. The latter agrees; but not without first demanding love services as an appropriate consideration. Subsequently, Grindel poisons the deathly longing for help with a love potion. Queen Sunn then falls under a curse, “eternal madness”.
During the attack, the pretty goddess DeJanira also falls from grace when she expresses human feelings and King Ator rushes to help. She is banished by the god Troll and robbed of her supernatural powers.
A few years later, the almost 18-year-old Ator junior has grown into a handsome man. Guided by a seer who informs him of the latest events, the brave hero tries from now on to atone for injustice and to free his people. After recovering the legendary sword, he kills his hated foster father. Afterwards he goes on an adventurous march through the kingdom, led by seer Nephele. During his wandering, the hero has to face all kinds of hostile creatures. After Ator redeemed the incarnate goddess DeJanira from her spell and made the cursed mother's long-awaited death possible, he marched together with DeJanira along the path into the so-called middle world. On the way, however, they are ambushed by soldiers from a neighboring kingdom. DeJanira is abducted . Ator, who in the meantime fell in love with the former goddess, follows in her footsteps.
Meanwhile, in a defense structure, a disfigured regent named Gunther tries to persuade the kidnapped woman to marry. As Ator approaches the castle, Gunther's lovable sister senses the chance to experience the long-awaited love. However, the hero defies the distractions and ultimately saves DeJanira from the hands of the villain. In the end, the two lovers leave the castle happily.
Reviews
Klaus Brüne writes in the Lexicon of International Films that the work is a “ simple-minded fantasy spectacle that makes use of all possible and impossible legends and sagas ”. The ingenuity of the staging is mainly limited to the special effects, since the " mask and trick technique definitely have qualities ". The film magazine Cinema also praises the " successful " special effects and masks in its online edition . The work is also described as an “ opulent spectacle for fantasy fans ”.
Web links
- Troll 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Troll 3 in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Troll 3. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. Online edition of Cinema , accessed on June 19, 2010