Mutiny on the Bounty (disambiguation)
Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of films, plays and books, based on the historically documented event of a mutiny on the Bounty, a three-masted sailing ship of the British Admiralty, which broke up in 1787 under the leadership of Lieutenant William Bligh on a trip to the South Seas, by cuttings of the breadfruit tree from Tahiti to bring to the West Indies.
Films
Was the screenplays of the films, with one exception, in 1984, of the eponymous novel from the famous Bounty Trilogy by Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall is based. Although the representation of William Bligh as a brutal captain hit the taste of the public, the correctness is but historically contentious.
Roger Donaldson and Dino De Laurentiis tried in 1984 to more accuracy, on the one hand through the mediation of emotions on board and the escalation, and by first-time replica of the ship after the original plans and in original size ( in steel - current safety and the needs of the film crew enough ).
Five movies about the mutiny are busy:
- The Mutiny of the Bounty ( of lost film; 1916) - with Wilton Power, George Cross. Director: Raymond Longford
- In the Wake of the Bounty (1933 ) - with Errol Flynn, Mayne Lynton. Directed by Charles Chauvel. The film was added to Australia and Tahiti, appeared in 1933 in Australia, but was never sold in America, but there bought by MGM to protect the already started production with Clark Gable.
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 ) - with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard. Directed by: Lewis Milestone.
- The Bounty (1984 ) - starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Liam Neeson. Director: Roger Donaldson.
In addition, a multi-part television film titled Island of the mutineers in 1989 produced and directed by Francois Leterrier. In the works is a film adaptation of the novel The Island by Robert Merle. Although the plot and the names of the protagonists have been modified, the parallels to the bounty events are clearly visible. The film tries to give an answer as to what happened to the mutineers on Pitcairn immediately after the mutiny and sociological problems which occurred there.
In addition, the German documentary Pitcairn in 1988 /89 - terminus of the Bounty for the WDR produced with funds from the Bavarian film funding. The FSK classified the film as " valuable" one. There were performances at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 1990 in BR 1990, 1998 and 2009.
In 2007 the ZDF documentary Bounty logbook. Produce The Riddle of the mutiny of color field blank ( Written and directed by Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus ). In it, the restorer Antony Zammit comes from the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia, where Bligh's logs are kept to word. During the restoration of the second volume he noticed that the captain has replaced later pages, including the day of the mutiny. What are the reasons he had for it and when he did this is not clear. The film tries the actual events that led to the mutiny, to reconstruct in re-enactments.
Radio plays
It also emerged radio plays about the mutiny:
- The Mutiny on the Bounty (Perl Series in 1973; approximately 80 minutes); The most famous adventures at sea by Captain Bligh's logbook reports and fact - among others with Joachim Nottke ( Narrator ), Peter Mosbacher ( William Bligh ), Klaus Sonnenschein ( Fletcher Christian ), Ruth Scheerbarth (director)
- Mutiny on the Bounty ( Europe, 1977, 34:24 minutes); Play by Eberhard Alexander Burgh according to old reports, fact - among others with Lutz Mackensy ( narrator ), Richard Lauffen ( William Bligh ), Volker Brandt ( Fletcher Christian ), Heikedine Körting (Director ), Dr. Beurmann (aka Andreas E. Beurmann, artistic Director ), Bert Brac (Music)