Zorro junior
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Zorro junior |
| Original title | Il figlio di Zorro |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 88 (German v. 83) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Gianfranco Baldanello (as Frank G. Carrol ) |
| script |
Guido Zurli Arpad De Riso Gianfranco Baldanello |
| production |
Giovanni Vari Miguel Ángel Gil |
| music | Carmelo Gigante |
| camera | Franco Dello Colli |
| cut | Gian Maria Messeri |
| occupation | |
| |
Zorro junior (original title: Il figlio di Zorro ) is an adventure film with elements of the spaghetti western from 1974, directed by Gianfranco Baldanello . The film was also advertised under the title Der Wilde Ritt der Geisterreiter . The German-language premiere took place on April 4, 1994 on the private broadcaster RTL .
action
The young nobleman Don Ricardo Villaverde lives in Mexico, ruled by Emperor Maximilian and led by Governor Leblanche as his very enjoyable representation, who sees his comfortable, frivolous life only impaired by his somewhat unhappy marriage to Donna Conchita and by the occasional appearance of the masked man Son of Zorro, a fighter for the poor peons and rebels suffering from the governor and thus for the revolution. When a load of weapons is on its way to the Alcalde of the town of San Ramon, Don Herrera Coser, the transport is attacked by the rebel Garincha and Herrera is killed; his daughter Donna Conchita escapes with the help of the son of Zoro and is hidden by him. They both fall in love. Meanwhile, the weapons become the property of the rebels who equip the peons with them and the revolution begins, causing the governor and his wife to flee. The son of Zorro, who made all these happenings possible and supported, goes to the house of the unhappily married Conchita and reveals himself to her.
criticism
The critics made mostly negative judgments. Christian Keßler regrets that the financial cutbacks could not demand the good cast available and so turned the film into a moderately severe catastrophe. The Italian critic JM Sabatier attested a “beautiful photography, a somewhat constructed script and a consistent direction”, which, however, still does not make a good film overall. "Sloppy and sometimes a little violent," said Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , and the lexicon of international film saw "a cheap series production".
Remarks
The poster for Der Wilde Ritt der Geisterreiter notes the spelling “Richard Widemark” as the main actor and “Eliza Ramires” as other participants.
According to Keßler , Marina Malfatti named in the staff details does not appear in the final version of the film.
Web links
- Zorro junior in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry at the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
- ↑ poster in ofdb
- ↑ a b Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2002, p. 103
- ↑ in: Saison '76 . Paris 1977
- ^ Zorro junior. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .