The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Directors:

Brenda Chapman
Steve Hickner

Drehbuchautoren:

Philip LaZebnik (screenplay)
Nicholas Meyer (additional screenplay material)

Premierendatum:

18. Dezember 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Trickfilm | Drama | Familienfilm | Musical

Werbezeile:

Two brothers united by friendship divided by destiny

Plot:

An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.

Plot Keywords:

Biblical Plagues | Old Testament | Actor Playing Multiple Roles | Plague | North Africa

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 5 wins & 19 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Beautiful and powerful. "The Prince of Egypt" has taken animated movies to a new level.

Besetzung

Val Kilmer	...	Moses / God (voice)
Ralph Fiennes	...	Rameses (voice)
Michelle Pfeiffer	...	Tzipporah (voice)
Sandra Bullock	...	Miriam (voice)
Jeff Goldblum	...	Aaron (voice)
Danny Glover	...	Jethro (voice)
Patrick Stewart	...	Pharaoh Seti I (voice)
Helen Mirren	...	The Queen (voice)
Steve Martin	...	Hotep (voice)
Martin Short	...	Huy (voice)
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Jack Angel	...	Additional Voices (voice)
James Avery	...	Overseer (voice)
Amick Byram	...	Moses (singing voice)
Sally Dworsky	...	Miriam (singing voice)
Ofra Haza	...	Yocheved (voice)
Donnie McClurkin	...	Wrote and sang "I AM"
Brian Stokes Mitchell	...	Jethro (singing voice)
Randall Montgomery	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Hugh Panaro	...	Additional singing
Jan Rabson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Eden Riegel	...	Young Miriam
Shira Roth	...	Hebrew Child Soloist (singing voice)
Linda Shayne	...	The Queen (singing voice) (as Linda Dee Shayne)
Francesca Smith	...	Sister

Alternativ:

Prinz von Ägypten, Der (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG for intense depiction of thematic elements.

Länge:

99 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Hebräisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:L | Philippines:G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Brazil:Livre | Chile:TE | Finland:K-8/5 | France:U | Germany:6 | Italy:T | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:G | Norway:7 | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/6 | Singapore:G | South Korea:All | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG | Egypt:(Banned) | Malaysia:(Banned)

Firma:

DreamWorks SKG

Dies und das:

Ralph Fiennes (the voice of Rameses) was considered for the title role of The Saint, which went to Val Kilmer (the voice of Moses/God).

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Moses is dragged by the camel, his arm is looped through a brown bag filled with water. Just before his head hits the well, his arm is looped through a red strap.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Overseers: [chanting] Mud... Sand... Water... Straw. Faster! Mud... and lift... sand... and pull... water... and raise up! Straw... Faster!
Hebrews: [singing] With the sting of the whip on my shoulder, with the salt of my sweat on my brow... Elohim, God on high, can you hear your people cry? Help us now, this dark hour... Deliver us, hear our call, deliver us, Lord of all! Remember us, here in this burning sand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us! Deliver us to the promised land!

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Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Flushed Away (2006)

Soundtrack:

The Plagues

Beautiful and powerful. "The Prince of Egypt" has taken animated movies to a new level.

"The Prince of Egypt" is a surprisingly near perfect movie. The beautifully animated has a great story and storytelling, beautiful songs and a great voice cast.

Animated movies has been taken to a new level with this movie. This is one of the very first animated movies made for an adult mainstream audience. Still the movie has some misplaced humor and 'Disney' like characters, to make this movie appealing for children as well but really this is more a movie for adults than for children. The movie has a serious undertone and some powerful moments, with the burning bush and the splitting of the red sea as the ultimate highlights of the movie.

The characters in the movie are well developed, which is perhaps also thanks to the impressive voice cast that consists out of; Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Ofra Haza. voices that stood out to me were Val Kilmer, Jeff Goldblum and Patrick Stewart. But it of course is also due to the nicely done character animation and storytelling that the characters work out really well and are highly realistic and humane. The character's movement and interacting is done really good and with eye for detail.

Another wonderful about his movie is the music composed by Hans Zimmer and friends and songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. It sounds weird, songs for a serious movie but it works extremely well for the movie and the storytelling and on top of that the songs are all from a very high level of prestige.

With this movie DreamWorks showed for the first time that they are a worthy competitor for Disney.

The movie and its storytelling are really powerful and impressive and help to make this movie an unforgettable watching experience.

It's a great movie for all ages but mainly adults.

9/10