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Ashanti

  • 1979
  • R
  • 1h 58min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,4/10
2273
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William Holden, Michael Caine, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, and Beverly Johnson in Ashanti (1979)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaDr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys,... Leggi tuttoDr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.Dr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

  • Regia
    • Richard Fleischer
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Stephen Geller
    • Alberto Vázquez Figueroa
  • Star
    • Michael Caine
    • Peter Ustinov
    • Kabir Bedi
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,4/10
    2273
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Richard Fleischer
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Stephen Geller
      • Alberto Vázquez Figueroa
    • Star
      • Michael Caine
      • Peter Ustinov
      • Kabir Bedi
    • 37Recensioni degli utenti
    • 21Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali23

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    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Dr. David Linderby
    Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov
    • Suleiman
    Kabir Bedi
    Kabir Bedi
    • Malik
    Beverly Johnson
    Beverly Johnson
    • Dr. Anansa Linderby
    Omar Sharif
    Omar Sharif
    • Prince Hassan
    Rex Harrison
    Rex Harrison
    • Brian Walker
    William Holden
    William Holden
    • Jim Sandell
    Zia Mohyeddin
    Zia Mohyeddin
    • Djamil
    Winston Ntshona
    Winston Ntshona
    • Ansok
    Tariq Yunus
    Tariq Yunus
    • Faid
    Tyrone Jackson
    • Dongaro
    Akosua Busia
    Akosua Busia
    • The Senoufo Girl
    Jean-Luc Bideau
    Jean-Luc Bideau
    • Marcel
    Olu Jacobs
    • Commissioner Batak
    Johnny Sekka
    Johnny Sekka
    • Captain Bradford
    Marne Maitland
    Marne Maitland
    • Touareg Chief
    Eric Pohlmann
    Eric Pohlmann
    • Zeda El-Kabir
    Harry Araten
    • Slave Dealer
    • Regia
      • Richard Fleischer
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Stephen Geller
      • Alberto Vázquez Figueroa
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    Recensioni degli utenti37

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    5malcp

    What happened here?

    A woeful lack of pace and equally thin if thankfully minor roles for some notable actors (Harrison, Holden and Sharif) could perhaps be excused if the story was told well enough for us to care about the main events. Despite the inclusion of strong language, violence, cruelty, and even some great acting, this film comes across as an insipid, mediocre and at times almost lighthearted look at the 20th century slave trade. Ustinov plays his role as the evil Suleiman with so much relish, you can't help but like him as one of the few characters with any real depth. Caine works tirelessly to try to pad out his matchstick thin role, but is let down again and again by weak plotting, tedious dialogue and non-existent direction. Is anyone convinced that the child slaves in the desert are as bothered about their situation as he is? Is he really as worried about his wife's situation as Harrison, Holden and Bedi? There are a lot worse films, but few with such a potentially stirring story handled so feebly.
    6ragosaal

    Good Cast in a Little Above Average Product

    Richard Fleischer was a very prolific director with a simple style but he was brave enough to enter films in all genres ("The Vikings", "Barabbas", "Compulsion", "Blind Terror", "The Boston Strangler", "Soylent Green", "Tora, Tora, Tora") with very good and acceptable results indeed.

    With "Ashanti" he gets a watchable film and a sort of testimonial one dealing with slavery in the XX Century as a pretty female Doctor rendering services for the United Nations among primitive tribes in Africa is kidnapped to be sold in the eastern Arabian markets; her husband goes on a long pursuit of the slave traders to recover her. Shoot in jungle and desert wide-open outdoor locations the film is sort of slow at times but it also has some good moments.

    An all star cast is a plus. Michael Caine renders an acceptable performance as the willing husband and model Beverly Johnson does too as his abducted wife. Peter Ustinov steals the show as the fiendish chief slave dealer Suleiman in what is probably the most interesting character in the film. Rex Harrison and William Holden not at the peak of their careers back then make correct appearances in small roles. Omar Shariff and Kabir Bedi are there too.

    Not a great film at all but worth a watch in my opinion. It's a 6 out of 10 for me.
    5807

    Not that bad

    Beverly Johnson and Michael Caine as an interracial marriage of doctors try to help some African kids when the woman is abducted by a ruthless slave hunter (Peter Ustinov). Seeing that the local officials are not too willing to do anything about it, Caine decides to take the justice into his own hands and starts chasing Ustinov across the vast deserts of Maghreb.

    Despite all the warnings, not that bad movie. The pace is somewhat slow, and the acting somewhat absent (though both Malik and Ustinov try to do their best), but generally, an acceptable filler on a rainy afternoon. The high points are the shots of North African desert and the Omar Shariff's short appearance.

    Beverly Johnson is pretty chick, but she's seen only periodically (still she has one scene of full frontal nudity, although very brief). And the grimy subject definitely deserved a better treatment. All in all, not a definitely bad movie; just nothing really memorable, exceptional and shining here. 5/10.
    7ColonelFaulkner

    Well, it certainly isn't Lawrence of Arabia but..

    ..it wasn't all that bad. 'Ashanti' has contrivance, plot holes, implausibility and more, not to mention plenty of cliché and stereotyping, while a single sentence can describe the plot; 'White husband pursues across Africa his hot black wife and her abductors who intend to sell her into slavery to wealthy Arabs'. Done. I wasn't expecting a whole lot, but actually I found this quite watchable and pretty entertaining.

    Certainly it isn't great and I may even be being slightly generous in giving it a seven, but it was pretty light, didn't seem to take itself too seriously and if other viewers don't take it too seriously either then I doubt they'll be disappointed. Sure, this will never make any 'must see' list, but it wasn't a waste of a couple of hours and Michael Caine was far too harsh in his own criticisms of it. He must have had bigger expectations of it being some epic which it didn't live up to.

    It's worth a look.
    6ma-cortes

    Exotic as well as entertaining adventure movie based on a novel by the Spanish writer Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa

    ¨Ashanti , land of no mercy¨ is an amusing picture with great loads of action , thrills , violence and adventures . It has a passable direction by Richard Fleischer , a superb casting and spectacular scenarios .The picture begins in the following sentence : ¨ Slavery stills exists today ,thousands of people disappeared in Africa last year . This story is based on fact ¨. The film's "Ashanti" title refers to the name of a proud African tribe who fought the Dutch and British armies during the 18th and 19th Centuries , the descendants survived to form the modern African state of Ghana . It deals with a doctor named David Linder (Michael Caine) along with his wife Anansa Linderby (top-model Beverly Johnson, she also was the only female character in the cast) acting as missionary in a medical mission in Africa . When the wife is kidnapped by a slave trader named Suleiman (Peter Ustinov, publicity for the film stated the part was Ustinov's first out-and-out bad guy role in his then thirty-year-long career) begins a relentless pursuit . From this moment the doctor finds himself alone in a battle to rescue her from a band of slave traders . The chase spans many Middle Estern countries and starts to look bleak for our man . Later on , David is helped by Malik (Kabir Bedi of Sandokan ; though Omar Sharif was originally going to play this type role of desert-guide Malik but had to bow out ; instead, Sharif played the smaller role of Prince Hassan), an expert Arab seeking vendetta . Only two men could rescue her , one driven by love, the other by revenge.

    In this weak film there are thriller , suspense , emotion , frenetic action and for that reason is amusing . Apparently, the flick is actually allegedly based on a real true-life story . This adventure movie also contains fantastic elements as when the sorcerer boy kills a nasty and has gorgeous moments when the desert pursuit and there appear slavering children . This movie about modern slave-trading was developed, made and released right on the heels of ¨Roots¨, a popular high-rating television series about historical slavery . On a hand it is an enjoyable adventure film , including usual ingredients : deserts , camels , jungles , oasis , Tuaregs and many other things . On the other hand the valuable cast and promising screenplay are undone by sometimes slow pace . The picture is based on a novel with same title by successful Spanish author , an adventure expert and prolific author called Alberto Vazquez Figueroa who gets numerous cinematographic adaptations such as ¨Manaos¨ , ¨The Iguana¨ , ¨Ocean¨ , ¨Oro Negro¨ and ¨Rottweiler¨ . Publicity for this picture stated that the United Nations had at the time the film was theatrically released a Special Committee on Slavery operating within the UN's Human Rights Division. Factual reports on slavery presented to the UN were a key source when author Alberto Vázquez Figueroa wrote this movie's source 1975 novel "Ebano". The picture was distributed by two studios, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, depending on the territory . Excellent and talented cast as Michael Caine as an unexperienced man who faces off extraordinary dangers , he has said many times that he acted in this film purely for monetary reasons and considers it the worst project , most wretched film he's ever done . In addition , gorgeous supermodel turned actress Beverley Johnson was the first ever African-American model to be featured on the cover of "Vogue" magazine in 1974 . Peter Ustinov goes through familiar role as the villain as well as Omar Sharif . While top-stars are really wasted as Rex Harrison and William Holden as a mercenary , helicopter pilot have little more than cameo characters , this is one of the final feature films for both actors . William Holden accepted a lowly seventh billed role on this picture so he could work on location in his beloved Africa where he owned a safari club . Furthermore , Johnny Sekka , Jean-Luc Bideau and veteran Eric Pohlmann as a swarthy portly man in one of his last acting . Colorful and shimmer cinematography by the Italian Aldo Tonti filmed on location in Israel , Kenya and Sicily, Italy and scenes set in the Sahara Desert in North Africa were actually filmed in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. Director Fleischer and cinematographer Tonti previously worked together on Barrabás . Functional musical score though composed by a TV composer by means of synthesizer .

    The motion picture was middling directed by veteran filmmaker Richard Fleischer who replaced Richard C. Sarafian, the film's original director, who dropped out of the production, though the action is in his safe hands . About four years prior to this picture, Richard Fleischer directed another film about slavery called Mandingo. Richard has directed all type of genres , such as classic adventure : ¨Vikings¨ , ¨20.000 leagues under sea¨ , noir cinema : ¨Narrow margin¨, ¨Clay pigeons¨, ¨Trapped¨ and Sci Fi : ¨Fantastic voyage¨ , ¨Soylent Green¨ . However , ¨Ashanti¨ resulted to be a failure at the international Box office , being today better considered .

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      Sir Michael Caine has said many times that he acted in this movie purely for monetary reasons, and considers it the worst project he's ever done. Caine once said that this movie was "the worst, most wretched film I ever made."
    • Citazioni

      Dr. David Linderby: This is Dr. Linderby. Not very well I'm afraid, one of our doctors has been kidnapped.

    • Versioni alternative
      A copy of the film was given away on DVD by the UK Mail On Sunday newspaper. However this version was considerably edited and missing most of the violent scenes. As the BBFC have never cut the film it appears that this version has come from a pre-cut or TV print.
    • Connessioni
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    • Colonne sonore
      Don't Lose the Feeling
      (end title song)

      Music by Michael Melvoin (uncredited)

      Lyrics by Don Black

      Sung by Jimmy Chambers

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    • Data di uscita
      • 6 aprile 1979 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Svizzera
      • Stati Uniti
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Sony Movie Channel (United States)
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Девојка из племена Ашанти
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Gerusalemme, Israele
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Beverly Films
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 58min(118 min)
    • Colore
      • Color
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    • Proporzioni
      • 2.39 : 1

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