Yor, the Hunter from the Future

One against the Empire ( Original title: Il mondo di Yor ) is a fantasy film that the director Antonio Margheriti 1983 turned after an Italian comic book. German premiere was on 16 March 1984.

Plot of the film

In of undefined distant future ( German Trailer speaks but for marketing reasons of " A long time ago in a far, far away galaxy .") Makes Yor, a hunter from the mountains, to the search, to elucidate the mystery of its origin. Him to accompany his girlfriend Ka - Laa, which he rescued from the clutches of brutal cavemen who unfortunately wiped out their peaceful tribe, and their fatherly friend Pag. Along the way they need to prevail against feueranbetende desert dwellers to escape the attack, the are out for revenge survivors of cavemen and kill a threatening giant lizard. Finally, they arrive at a high-tech island whose inhabitants are the survivors of the nuclear disaster, which is responsible for ensuring that the world fell back into prehistoric conditions. The ruler of the island calls itself the highest and commanded an army of androids on which bases its sovereign power. He intends to colonize the world with perfect beings to be a cross between humans and machines. To this end, he wants to dissect Yor to remove him genetic raw material for these creations. The people of the island, however, know that Yor is really the son of a fugitive rebel, on his return they are waiting for a long time and now want to venture with him at the helm, the rebellion against the Most High. The uprising is successful, the island, together with the Supreme and his android is destroyed by a nuclear explosion, while Yor with his companions and the few remaining islanders to the mainland returning to lay the foundation for an acceptable future of humanity there.

Importance

One against the Empire gained a very high reputation, because he the most bizarre B movies counts among cineastes in general. Reason is easy to sentient as absurd genre mix: one against the Empire begins as a fantasy film with echoes of which is affected by the movies Conan the Barbarian Genre to a little over half the time abruptly in science fiction turn over. The Supreme rules over an army of androids which seems to consist of Darth Vader cloning and speaks without apparent reason, with the same machine - rattling voice like this character from Star Wars. The strangeness is reinforced by the significantly low cognitive effort, with which the film was produced. So an ordinary, partly in the style of 1970s wood-paneled control room of a normal power station must represent the control center of the island, where several times a normal ivory phone vast enters the picture. One of whatever kind " empire" emerged, contrary to the German title, not on. The curiosity and constantly -present cheapness of the film, which also comes up with a large number of plot holes, unanswered questions and apparent inconsistencies have to actually quite sincere One can be against the empire into one of the unintentionally comical B- movies, which also include plan 9 from Outer Space or Ator II - the Invincible belong.

Director Margheriti about his film:

  • " I always have a lot of fun when watching the movie look at me again, truly a perfect party strip and so I 've actually always classified him.".

Criticism

"With IL MONDO DI YOR Margheriti is as entertaining and exciting action adventure succeeded, which is unquestionably one of the highlights of Italian Barbarian film art. Dull moments are minimal, it cracks and hisses at all corners, and also in his Spezialmetier - the effect Art - Antonio can not slouch. Probably already in the original version, not overly top-heavy dialogues were seasoned by the German dubbing still a few tablespoons of pure delirium. This would be a Swedish brooding drama hardly really suit, here it is, however, the salt in the soup! "

" This must be seen to be believed. This is one of those movies that make the genre so compelling (...). Only fans can see such a thing, a critic would dismiss it as a bare legal nonsense. "

The lexicon of the International film was less enthusiastic: " uninteresting mix of sandals adventure and science fiction, the genre models blatantly copied. "

Italy 1983 in film Screenplay Film score John Scott (composer) Android (robot)
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