See also: Pirate (homonymy)

Pirates is a film Franco-American realized by Roman Polanski and left in 1986

Synopsis

The film tells the adventures and mishaps of two pirates, the Red captain and his comparse the Frog to seize a throne in solid gold INCA. In 1672. Lost with the right in the middle of the Atlantic on an emergency raft after the shipwreck of their ship, the two accomplices are collected by a Spanish Galion , Neptune, ordered by Don Alfonso Della Torre. Immediately locked up thoroughly of hold, they discover in the compartments of the ship a throne in solid gold of king INCA Capatec Hanahuac: the Red captain does not think any more but of one thing, to seize some! He thus foments a Mutinerie in the crew into convincing the sailors of the ill treatments that make them undergo their officers and succeeds in seizing the galleon.

He diverts it towards an island of the the Antilles. At the conclusion of a drinking bout among pirates, the captive Spanish officers directed by Don Alfonso succeed in releasing, taking again the control of Neptune by announcing the death of the Red captain and bringing back it to Maracaïbo.

Insane of rage, the Red captain tries to take again the throne while threatening to kill the governor of the city but it is captured with Frog and jeté in prison. While the galleon sails for Spain with the throne on its board, the captain is released by the pirates and launches out to the continuation of Neptune. He succeeds in catching up with it nuitamment. In the general confusion of the combat between the sailors of Neptune and the pirates, the Captain succeeds in taking again the throne which it hoists with the assistance of Frog on a boat.

The film finishes on a scene identical to the beginning: both comparses sail on the ocean, the captain comfortably installed in the throne by fredonnant a song of satisfaction.

Data sheet

• Title: Pirate
• original Title: Pirate
• Realization: Roman Polanski
• Scenario: John Brownjohn, Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski and Witold Sobocinski
• Music: Sardinian Philippe
• Coming out date: May 8th 1986 (France) - February 28th 1986 (the United States)
• American Film and French
• Kind: venture
• Durée: 124 minutes

Distribution

• Walter Matthau: Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red
• Cries Campion: Jean-Baptiste , known as the Frog
• Damien Thomas: Don Alfonso
• Charlotte Lewis: Dolores
• Richard Pearson: the padre
• Olu Jacobs: Boumako
• Ferdy Mayne : Captain Linares
• David Kelly: the surgeon
• Roy Kinnear: the Dutchman
• Bill Fraser: the governor
• Emilio Fernández: Angelito
• Tony Peck: Spanish officer

Rewards

In 1987, the film gained two Césars: that of the better costumes decreed with Pierre Guffroy and that of the better decoration with Anthony Powell.

External bonds

• '' Pirates '' on Internet Movie Database

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