(VIDEO) Film serial "Robinson Crusoe" (1964)

For the "World Cinema" section, this page brings this time the serial film "Robinson Crusoe" version from the BBC in the distant year 1964. Below we are giving more detailed information about this very beautiful series also broadcast by TVSH.

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (in French: Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoe) is a Franco-German co-production television film drama series for children created by Franco London Films (aka FLF Television Paris) based on Daniel Defoe's novel of 1719 "Robinson Crusoe."

The television series was first broadcast in Germany in October 1964 under the title "Robinson Crusoe" in four 90-minute episodes by co-producers ZDF, and was broadcast in the US the same year. This film was first broadcast in the UK in 1965 as a 13-part serial. This English dubbed version produced by Henry Deutschmeister also had a new soundtrack composed by Robert Mellin and P. Reverberi replacing the music composed by Georges Van Parys for the French/German original. The production focused not only on the events on the island, but included Crusoe's other adventures, told in flashbacks. Precisely this version "Albanian Cinematography makes it possible online for Albanian viewers.

The series was filmed in Gran Canaria, the third largest of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco. Robinson's Island Locations was shot in Playa del Ingles on the southern tip of Gran Canaria; Moroccan scenes were filmed further along the coast at Playa de Maspalomas and the Maspalomas Dunes; The small inland village of Tejeda in the fictional center of Gran Canaria was used as the location for Robinson's Plantation in Brazil. Much of this footage was shot in silence due to the lack of dialogue and the time it saved on location, the audio was later dubbed. The English locations (York/Hull) were shot in Normandy, France. Filming took four months to complete. A small crew of 11 people were used for the filming of Gran Canaria, who also played small parts in the series, such as assistant director Luc Andrieux who took on the part of Kasir, the fishmonger. This was Austrian Salzburg-born actor Robert Hoffmann's first professional job after leaving the French acting school in Paris in 1964. (In Defoe's novel, Crusoe is only 27 and his father a German immigrant from Bremen , nicknamed Kreutznaer, so Crusoe is an anglicization of that name.)

Franco London Film made available three different copies of the show (four-part, six-part, and thirteen-part versions) to accommodate the broadcast requirements of countries purchasing the series. The success of this production led to a series of 16 French/German co-production adaptations of the classic adventure and children's novels between 1964 and 1983, for ZDF and ORTF in France. These series are known by German fans as the four members of ZDF. The man behind these mini epics was German producer/writer Walter Ulbrich. The series is dubbed into German, English, French and Italian.

STARRING: Robert Hoffmann as Robinson Crusoe Lee Payant as the Voice of Robinson Crusoe (English Dub) Renzo Palmer as the Voice of Robinson Crusoe (Italian Dub) Fabian Cevallos as "Friday" Jacques Berthier as the father of Robinson Phillipe Ogouz as Rodney Jacques Gougin as one of Robinson's friends in York Francis Chares as one of Robinson's friends in York Phillipe Bruneau as one of Robinson's friends in York Guy Mairesse as Captain of the Guard Alain Nobis as JBWooseley, the lawyer (part 2) Robert Dalban as Captain Darrick (parts 4/5) Jacques Dynam as Bush, Darrick's second mate (part 5) Peter Miles as a sailor on Darrick's ship (part 5) Jean Paul Bernard as of Aga Asan, the Emir (episode 5) Jaqueline Chotard as the Emir's wife (episode 5) Luc Andrieux as Kasir, the fishmonger (episode 6) Roland Rodier as the Portuguese captain (episode 7) Robert Luchaire as Aitkins, the leader of the rebels /pirates (episodes 12/13) Gilbert Robin as Captain (episode 13) German Reshoot Additional Cast: Erich Bludau as Robinson's father Jane Marken as Jenny, Crusoe's maid Oskar von Schab as Jeremias B. Wooseley, lawyer Claudia Berg as Wooseley's niece Paul Chevalier as a blind man Michael Chevalier as the Voice of Robinson Crusoe

Some scenes were shot with different actors for the German cut of Robinson Crusoe and some additional scenes were filmed. For example; Wooseley's niece, the blind man, and Jenny do not appear in the French/English version. Other scenes were edited out of the German version, for example the looks of disgust on Hoffmann's face in the first episode as he rolls a drowned body into the sea and tries to eat an insect. Photos from the German scenes can be seen in the photo gallery on the network DVD of the series.

In addition to Payant as Robinson Crusoe, the voice artists used for the English dubbing for other characters, such as Robinson's father or Captain Darrick etc. are uncredited.

Renzo Palmer was the Italian voice of Robinson Crusoe. The Italian dub also used the Robert Mellin/P.Reverberi musical score. It was first broadcast in Italy by RAI in the winter of 1964–1965 (from 13 December 1964), and the last Italian repeat was in the summer of 1978.

For TVSH-Albanian Public Radio Television, we are not sure which of the cuts he broadcasted, but there is a good chance that RAI's version was given.

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SERIES 1 and 2

SERIES 3 and 4

SERIES 5 and 6

SERIES 7 and 8

SERIES 9 and 10

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