Zorro versus Maciste - battle of the invincible

Movie
German title	Zorro versus Maciste - battle of the invincible
Original title	Zorro contro Maciste
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1963
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Umberto Lenzi
script	Umberto Lenzi Guido Malatesta
production	Fortunato Misiano
music	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
camera	Augusto Tiezzi
cut	Jolanda Benvenuti
occupation
Pierre Brice : Zorro / Ramon Sergio Ciani : Maciste (as Alan Steel ) Moira Orfei : Mava Massimo Serato : García de Higuera Maria Grazia Spina : Isabella Andrea Aureli : Rabek Aldo Bufi Landi : Deikor Andrea Scotti : Pedro Loris Gizzi : Don Alvarez Rosy Di Leo : Carmencita Attilio Dottesio : General Savedra Nazzareno Zamperla : Sadoch Amedeo Trilli : Guest

Zorro versus Maciste - Fight of the Invincible (original title: Zorro contro Maciste ) is an Italian adventure film , a mixture of two genres, directed by Umberto Lenzi in 1962. The film was also shown for the first time in German-speaking countries on July 24, 1964. Title in the GDR was competition for Zorro .

action

After the death of Philip II, King of Navarre, his two granddaughters, the princesses Malva and Isabella, compete for his successor. The cruel and ambitious Malva fears that a will will see Isabella as heir to the throne, so she wants it to be stolen to replace it with a paper in her favor. She entrusts Maciste with the implementation of this idea, but he has to deal with Zorro, whom Isabella has called because she suspected her cousin's machinations.

After several adventures in which luck surges back and forth, Maciste succeeds in carrying out his mission. However, when he sees through that he has been used for evil purposes, he refuses to hand over the document and turns against Malva; instead of her, Isabella ascends the throne with her lover, who is none other than Zorro. Maciste rides towards new adventures.

criticism

The Monthly Film Bulletin praised Pierre Brice's performance as "consistently excellent", but found the other actors to be extremely average. Its main weakness is the lousy coloring. Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, and Norbert Stresau saw another weakness in the fact that “the film does not know which genre it belongs to”. The lexicon of international film made it very short: "Most undemanding entertainment."

synchronization

• Pierre Brice: Herbert Stass
• Sergio Ciani: Rainer Brandt
• Moira Orfei: Rosemarie Fendel
• Massimo Serato: Helmo Kindermann
• Andrea Aureli: Benno Hoffmann

Web links

• Zorro against Maciste - Battle of the Invincible in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of Fantasy Films. Munich 1986, p. 585
2. ↑ Zorro versus Maciste - Fight of the Invincible. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .