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William Hurt, Alec Newman, Saskia Reeves, Ian McNeice, Matt Keeslar, Jan Unger, Giancarlo Giannini, Julie Cox, Miroslav Táborský, Uwe Ochsenknecht (mehr)Folgen(3)
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Im 11. Jahrtausend: Die Menschheit hat den Weltraum besiedelt und mehrere Adelshäuser kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft im Imperium. Einem rauen, unscheinbaren Planeten kommt dabei eine zentrale Rolle zu: Arrakis. Obwohl der auch als Dune bekannte Wüstenplanet eine karge, lebensfeindliche Welt ist, ist er der vermutlich wichtigste Planet des Universums, denn nur hier kann man das Spice abbauen, eine bewusstseinserweiternde Droge, die zugleich unentbehrliches Element der Raumfahrt ist. Der von machthungrigen Neidern umgebene Imperator Shaddam IV. (Giancarlo Giannini) überträgt schließlich die Herrschaft für Arrakis an den noblen Herzog Leto Atreides (William Hurt).
Lange kann die Familie Atreides allerdings ihre bedeutende Rolle nicht einnehmen, denn der verschlagene Baron Wladimir Harkonnen (Ian McNeice), dessen Familie bereits ewig mit den Atreides verfeindet ist, setzt rasch zur Machtübernahme an, die ihm schließlich auch gelingt. Nur knapp gelingt es Leto Atreides, seinen Sohn Paul (Alec Newman) und dessen Mutter, die Bene-Gesserit Jessica (Saskia Reeves), vor Harkonnen in Sicherheit zu bringen. Mutter und Sohn flüchten in die von gigantischen Sandwürmern belebte Wüste. In den Polregionen von Arrakis kommen sie bei den mysteriösen Wüstenbewohnern unter, die man nur als Fremen kennt. Unter dem Schutz von Fremen-Führer Stilgar (Uwe Ochsenknecht) wächst Paul zu einem mächtigen Gegner für die Feinde seiner Familie heran...
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Tedious, sometimes boring, sometimes with dodgy effects, but you know, in this case I don't mind it at all. Given the fact that the entire film was shot at Barrandov Studios and that all the desert scenes were shot in one room, those imperfections have their charm. Often you see actors pretending to walk in the desert and right behind them you notice a hanging canvas with painted dunes. There are a lot of moments like that, and picking up on those imperfections is very entertaining on its own. Despite that, I was drawn into the story because “Dune” itself is a great novel and this version sticks to it pretty faithfully. The actors are often rather stilted, but it was nice to see a large number of our actors, of whom Karel Dobrý had an unexpectedly big role. Also, Pištěk’s costume design is great, but that can be expected from him. But like I said, the most entertaining part of the whole film are the cutely imperfect visual effects from our specialists. PS: Having watched it again and re-read the book many years later, I can only conclude that this is probably what Lynch's version was supposed to look like, reverent to the source material.
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It is a trickily terrible adaptation, really dreadful in some places for nowadays, and I don't mean it because classic tricks are also used here, but because they are simply done poorly. But it is still "Dune" and its story is captured fairly accurately. The problem is that it lacks the depth that the book has, but there is simply just some story being told here. The presence of Czech actors is nice, I was especially captivated by Barbora Kodetová, also because I fell in love with the character Chani already in the book. Weak, but I still liked it more than Lynch's version, even though it has its strong points too.
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