Ein Fressen für die Geier

(Two Mules For Sister Sara)

Universal - 119 m - USA 1969

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Inhalt
Ein wortkarger amerikanischer Söldner und eine geschwätzige Prostituierte, die sich als Nonne verkleidet hat, kämpfen gegen die Franzosen im revolutionären Mexiko.


Cast/Crew
Shirley MacLaine

Clint Eastwood

Manolo Fabregas

Alberto Morin

John Kelly

David Estuardo

Ada Carrasco

Pedro Galvan

José Chavez

Enrique Lucero

José Angel Espinosa

Margarito Luna

Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

José Chavez

Hortensia Santovena

Rosa Furman

Pancho Cordoba

Armando Sylvestre

Josh Torvay

- Sister Sara

- Hogan

- Col. Beltran

- Gen. LeClaire

- Zweiter Amerikaner

- Juan

- Juans Mutter

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- Horacio

- Dritter Amerikaner

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- Französischer Offizier

- Horatio

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- Juans Vater

- Erster Amerikaner

Don Siegel

Carroll Case

Martin Rackin

Budd Boetticher

Albert Maltz

Gabriel Figueroa

Ennio Morricone

Juan Jose Marino

Robert F. Shugrue

Jose R.Granada

Pablo Galvan

Carlos Chavez

Helen Colvig

Frank Westmore

Frank Brendel

Leon Ortega

Joe Cavalier

Buddy Van Horn

- Regie

- Produzentin

- Produzent

- Drehbuch

- Drehbuch

- Kamera

- Musik

- Schnitt

- Schnitt

- Art Director

- Set Design

- Kostüme

- Kostüme

- Makeup

- Special Effects

- Special Effects

- Asst. Director

- Stunts


Literatur
"There were two things in Two Mules for Sister Sarah that I'm particularly proud of. One of these things is something that I didn't even shoot. Joe Cavalier my assistant director, took a crew into the desert to get the opening credit shots with various animals in the foreground andclint ridingin the background. I told him what I wanted and it took him two weeks to get it but it was worth it because it established a feeling for the kind of animalistic man wh was our hero. it's one of the best credit sequences I've seen.
I also liked the battle sequence, the attack on the fort. It involved a careful scripting of over 70 camera set-ups, from which we took about 120 shots, noe of them on the screen for more than five seconds. i shot it as a montage, right out of my Warner Brothers days. I had every shot tilted in the opposite Shirley MacLaine auf dem Eseldirection from the one before. I worked very hard on making that battle sequence work because there was really nothing in the story that justified it. My goal was to make it justify itself by being very exciting.
One regret I have about the picture is that it was a classic ecample of not getting along with the producer. 95% of my time on that picture, and most pictures which I don't produce myself, is spent outwitting, outfoxing, and putting on an act for the producer. Marty Rackin and I did not get along. I'd make my points, but he would walk away saing: 'I lose the battles but win the war': The war he won on Two Mules for Sister Sarah was that he, not I, did the final editin. It's a limited victory, however, because if you cut the picture in the camera, shoot the minimum and get to do the first cut as Alfred Hitchcock does or I do, then there isn't that much leeway in editing the picture unless the producer orders more film shot. Normally the studio has no complaints about my shooting a minimum of film even if it upsets the producer. They grant special dispensations in such cases."
(Lovell Interviews, S. 59)

"Siegel's improvisations often infuriate writers. Albert Maltz, author of 'Two Mules for Sister Sara' and co-author (with Irene Kamp) of 'The Beguiled' told me he thought Siegel had ruined his work, chopping and changing the scripts for the two films until they were travesties of the originals. He and Irene Kamp were so angry with Siegel's reworking of their writing on 'The Beguiled' that they insisted pseudonyms be used on the picture's credits - John B. Sherry and Grimes Grice.
Siegel says: 'Martin Rackin, the producer of 'Two Mules for Sister Sara', a man I despise, and Maltz put the script together and sold it to Clint. They saw it in terms of a crude and stupid burlesque and I had to humanize it. (...) I rewrote most of it, and had several run-ins with Rackin over that."

Charles Higham: Suddenly, Don Siegel's High Camp-us. New York Times, 25.7.1971

"In Don Siegels mildem Western TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Ein Fressen für die Geier - 1970) deutet sich schon an, daß die unmögliche Sehnsucht dieses Helden darauf gerichtet ist, von einer Frau 'gezähmt' und vor sich selbst beschützt zu werden. Weil sich auch dieser inverse patriarchale Traum nicht erfüllen kann, gibt es in Eastwood-Filmen zwei wiederkehrende Phantasien: Eastwood wird von einer Fau mit sexueller Gewalt behandelt, er wird immer wieder gequält und mehr oder minder deutlich kastriert, wird von seiner Freundin gefesselt in TIGHTROPE (Der Wolf hetzt die Meute - 1984) und von Sonja Braga in THE ROOKIE (Rookie - Der Anfänger - 1990) vergewaltigt; und andererseits macht sich Eastwood zum Anwalt, zum Kämper für die Frau, ein schwarzer Ritter, der die verlorene Ehre der Frauen rächt. Einer, der eine tiefe Schuld seiner selbst und seines Geschlechts abtragen muß, indem er die Gewalt, die von Männern gegenüber Frauen ausgeübt wurde, nun gegenüber den Männern ausübt.
Georg Seeßlen: Selbstbildnis als apokalyptischer Reiter. Clint Eastwood und 'Unforgiven'; in: ders.:Clint Eastwood trifft Federico Fellini. Essays zum Kino. Berlin: Bertz (Edition Splitscreen 2). S. 144/5


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