Yambao
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Yambao |
| Original title | Yambaó |
| Country of production |
Mexico Cuba |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfredo B. Crevenna |
| script |
Julio Albo Julio Alejandro |
| production |
Rubén A. Calderón Alberto López |
| music |
Lan Adomian Obdulio Morales |
| camera | Raúl Martínez Soares |
| cut | Gloria Schoemann |
| occupation | |
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Yambao (Original title: Yambaó ) is a Mexican-Cuban feature film from 1957 by Alfredo B. Crevenna . The script was written by Julio Albo and Julio Alejandro . The leading roles are cast with Ninón Sevilla , Ramón Gay and Rosa Elena Durgel . The film premiered on December 25, 1957 in Mexico. In the Federal Republic of Germany you could see him for the first time on August 28, 1959 in the cinema.
action
The film is set in Cuba in the mid-19th century. Beatrice, the wife of the plantation owner Jorge, is expecting her first child. She is a little worried because yellow fever is around and has already carried away many people.
After a long time, the drums sound again on a full moon night. The spectacle stopped when the dreaded sorceress Caridad was chased to death by the black slaves of the plantation. But now the men are staring at a hill on which they see a classy girl dancing. You recognize in this figure Yambao, in which the evil spirit of the deceased lives on. Their hiding place is in a rock cave. There she lives with her grandmother, who has mysterious magical powers and who taught her granddaughter the art of black magic. Yambao is ordered to avenge her mother.
Lazaro, the son of the plantation supervisor, presses the wild beauty, who begins to fight violently. When Jorge frees the girl from the monster, doom begins for himself: Yambao's magic causes him to become a slave to her and to become afflicted with yellow fever. The treating doctor sees no more hope. Now Yambao's spell rescues Jorge. Recovered, the desire for Yambao immediately grabs them. The plantation owner in love showered the sorceress with passionate kisses and promised to be there only for her. But when Beatrice gives her husband the expected son, Jorge returns in her arms.
At the behest of her grandmother, Yambao reaches for the knife to kill Beatrice and her child. However, she fails to carry out the plan. As if in a trance, she walks the path that her mother already took: she plunges into the rocky abyss.
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: Kraus and primitive, worked according to the “B” recipe of cheap producers (“Blood, Beast, Breast, Baby, Pray”). The online version describes the strip as a third-rate film that is mixed together according to primitive recipes.
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Mannheim, without a number
Web links
- Yambao in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4379
- ↑ Yambao. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 30, 2017 .