Time Bandits

• Craig Warnock: Kevin
• David Rappaport: Randall
• Jack Purvis: Wally
• Kenny Baker: Fidgit
• Malcolm Dixon: Strutter
• Mike Edmonds: Og
• Tiny Ross: Vermin
• David Warner: The evil
• Sir Ian Holm: Napoléon
• John Cleese: Robin Hood
• Sir Sean Connery: Agamemnon
• Shelley Duvall: Pansy
• Michael Palin: Vincent
• Peter Vaughan: Winston the Ogre
• Katherine Helmond: Mrs. Ogre
• Sir Ralph Richardson: Supreme beings
• David Daker: Kevin's father

Time Bandits is a fantasy movie of 1981 and one of the first great success of the British production company HandMade Films, which also previously in collaboration with Monty Python film Life of Brian has produced.

Action

The eleven-year old Kevin, who is interested in history, dreams one night of how a knight comes along with horse jumped out of his closet. The following night he waits again and lies down with a Polaroid camera and a flashlight to bed. That night, however, is not a knight, but six dwarfs, where he joins. The dwarves have stolen from the Supreme being a card on which all the remaining holes are found in the universe. Through these holes, it is possible to travel to different era. The dwarves want to take advantage of this to enrich themselves thereby.

The first time hole leads the dwarves and Kevin in the Battle of Castiglione. Napoleon, who likes it when little people to beat each other on stage, appoints the dwarves after a theater performance to generals. He promptly robbed. The second trip leads the group, which has Kevin is now connected to the Middle Ages, where they meet Robin Hood. Haunted by the Supreme Being who needs to reclaim his card, Kevin escapes into a time warp that takes them to ancient Greece. There he meets the King Agamemnon and saves his life in a duel with a Minotaur. In return, Agamemnon takes the boy on as his son.

A short time later, however, the dwarves emerge and be Kevin on the Titanic. After these decreases, the dwarves choose to travel in the Age of Legends. Finally, There they meet an ogre with back problems, a giant and the personification of evil, which would also bring the card in his possession.

From this, they are lured into a trap and locked in a cage. After they were able to free themselves from this, they try to snatch the evil the card again, but this proves to be impossible. Even with tools from different eras - knights, archers, cowboys, tanks and spacecraft - they are unable to defeat the evil.

When all seems in vain, immerses the Supreme Being on, finished the spook, and explains that it was all been a test to test his creation and is included with evil. The dwarves evacuate almost everything on, and the boy is left to itself, to become after he was fogged from a smoke cloud of evil to wake up in his bed and rescued by firefighters from a burning house. His parents come around after they touch a piece of evil that has been forgotten in the cleanup and King Agamemnon emerged as a fireman on.

Criticism

" A fantastic adventure film, somewhere between parody and vertracktem dream fairy tale, spiced with a lot of British humor. An elaborate and rich effect, despite some formal inconsistencies amusing and sometimes even profound entertainment. The multi-layered plot and the parodic subtleties are likely to only open the adult audience completely. "

" Gags and ideas galore: Gilliam wrote the screenplay with Monty Python buddy Michael Palin. Ex - Beatle George Harrison co-produced. Conclusion: For this time must be: brilliant fairy tale fun! "

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Awards

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was never released. The -heard uncredited title "Dream Away " was written and sung by George Harrison and is included on his album "Gone Troppo " from the year 1982.