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The
Return of Sandokan
Sandokan - O Regresso (Portugal)
Le Retour de Sandokan (France)
Die Rückkehr des Sandokan (Germany)
Powrót Sandokana (Poland)
Sandokan visszatér (Hungary)
Intoarcerea lui Sandokan (Romania)
Sandokanov návrat (Slovakia)
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Il trionfo di Sandokan (working title) |
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| release
category |
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TV-mini-series |
| genre |
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adventure |
| length |
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360m
- 4 episodes of 90 minutes (original broadcast)
- also other broadcast versions |
| release
dates |
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Italy - October 6, 1996 on TV channel Canale 5 (version:
4 episodes)
• Germany - April 11, 1998 on TV channel SAT 1 (version:
4 episodes)
• Poland - March 3, 1999 on TV channel Super 1 (version:
4 episodes)
• Hungary - May 5, 1999 (version: 4 episodes) |
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| PRODUCTION |
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of production |
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Italy,
Germany |
| production |
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Titanus
SpA/Mediaset (Italy), Taurus Film/SAT 1 (Germany) |
| executive
producer |
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Anselmo
Parrinello, Guido Lombardo (producer) |
| screenplay |
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Adriano
Bolzoni, George Eastman (as Luigi Montefiori) |
| music |
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MUSIC:
Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis |
| choreography |
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| photography |
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Giancarlo
Ferrando |
| costume
design |
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Adriana
Berselli
Sonoo Mishra (assistant costume designer, India) |
| make
up |
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Maurizio
Nardi |
| casting |
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Cornelia
von Braun (casting: Germany) |
| distribution |
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Vellavision
(Spain), SAT 1 (Germany) |
| filming
location |
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Mysore,
Southern India
Madras, India
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| DIRECTOR |
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Enzo
G. Castellari |
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| CAST |
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Mandala
Tayde (Lady Dora
Parker)
Mathieu Carrière (Raska, Raja of Limpur)
Romina Power (Maharani Surama of Assam)
Fabio Testi (Yanez De Gomera)
Tobias Hoesl (James Guilford)
Randi Ingerman (Yamira, Raska's lover)
Vittoria Belvedere (Baba, Yogi Azim's daughter)
Lorenzo Crespi (André De Gomera, Yanez' son)
Friedrich von Thun (Lord Parker, Dora's father)
Franco Nero (Yogi Azim)
Sergio Nicolai (Lord Burton) |
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| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir plays
again the lead role of 'Sandokan, the Tiger of Malaysia'. |
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showstopper |
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Kabir rides Marwari-horses in the Sandokan mini-series which
was filmed on location in India.
In Il Ritorno di Sandokan
this is almost the only kind of horse you will see.
Marwaris
are an ancient Indian type of walking horses, which
used to be bred for their courage in battle but nowadays
are quite rare.
There are no Marwaris in Europe because
they cannot be exported from India. However, 10 Marwari
horses were exported to the US.
Marwaris have a peculiar
lateral gait which is typical of the breed.
This means, saddled they will often walk in a cadence of
four but also in a
walk or pass rhythm, depending upon their temperament.
This Indian horse is easily recognised
from the unusual position of its ears (see picture above),
which is clearly
visible in many of the scenes from Il Ritorno di Sandokan.
They
are comfortable even for non-riding experts like film stars.
Unfortunately,
Kabir is slightly
too tall to be riding this breed.
The
rather high stirrups you see in the movie
cannot have been too comfortable for him.
However, many
of the Sandokan riding scenes were shot using the Italian
double/stuntman Claudio Pacifico, so not every Sandokan
is the real thing!
But since Claudio Pacifico is about
the same size as Kabir - being his double - he won't have
been much more comfortable either...
In Kabir's first Sandokan
film (1976) there are no Marwari horses.
Stars like John Wayne, William Shatner, Ophrah
Winfrey, Bruce Willis and Juliane Werding also worked
with walking horses.
(Many, many thanks to Carolin Klaus in Germany.
Carolin
is a walking horse expert and Executive Director of the
European Tennessee Walking Horse Association.
There are
about 400
Tennessee
Walker horses in Europe, a north American walking horse
breed.
For further information: ETWHA
Germany) |
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broadcasts |
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want to
see Kabir in it?
check TV listings of Kabir's work - current/archives |
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| LINKS |
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related links |
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• Lorenzo
Crespi biography/pictures
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Randi
Ingerman official homepage
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Esplosiva
Randi picture gallery & video |
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2-DVD-Set Sandokan
- O Regresso (Portugal)
audio format: Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD area code: 2
4 episodes
original-version
digitally remastered
Portuguese subtitles
distr.: Prisvideo, SA
prod.: Taurus Film / Titanus / Rai Trade
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
| • The TV-mini-series
Il Ritorno di Sandokan was the biggest European TV production
of 1996. |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Guido Lombardo,
the producer of Il Ritorno di Sandokan,
is the son of the producer of Kabir’s first Sandokan
film SANDOKAN.THE
TIGER OF MALAYSIA (1976).
• popular Italian singer Al Bano visited his wife Romina
Power for 10 days on set in Mysore, India, and used a break
in the shooting to film a video clip with her on a local market.
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Mandala Tayde was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1975. She has
an Indian mother and a German father.
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Lorenzo Crespi is a Sicilian. Born in 1971, his sign is Leo.
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Lorenzo Crespi was a successful model in Milan,
working amongst others for Armani. His pictures appeared in
Vogue magazine.
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Lorenzo Crespi appeared in the 1998 calendar
of
Max magazine as one of the "most beautiful men in the
world".
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Lorenzo Crespi’s favourite sports are boxing and American
football.
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Randi Ingerman was born in the US in 1967 but has been living
in Italy for many years, where she enjoys great popularity.
She has worked as a model in many countries and often appears
in Italian TV productions.
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Randi Ingerman has worked with Harvey
Keitel, Jack Nicholson
and Pamela Anderson.
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Randi Ingerman was very thin as a child – by her own
admission – and wore a kind of Afro haircut, like Michael
Jackson.
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Randi Ingerman’s favourite dish is Mousse au Chocolat.
• Writer, actor, director and producer Luigi
Montefiori was born 1942 near Genoa and often uses
the pseudonym 'George Estman', among other
names.
• Luigi Montefiori is one of the writers of Marco
Bonini's I Guardiani del cielo (1998). The 2-part TV movie, an adventure
story, set in the desert, premiered on October 1,
2000 on German television. Kabir-/Sandokan
fans know Marco Bonini as Ken Hastings, Kabir's SON
OF SANDOKAN/IL FIGLIO DI SANDOKAN (1998).
• Luigi Montefiori is also one of the writers of another
Tv epic: Enzo
G. Castellari's Deserto di fuoco (1997) - starring Mandala
Tayde and Anthony Delon (Alain Delon's son).
• Luigi Montefiori is also one of the writers of Kabir's TV
mini series IL PRINCIPE DEL DESERTO (1989)
and its screen/video version BEYOND
JUSTICE (1991).
• Luigi Montefiori is also one of the writers of Kabir's TV
mini series THE
MAHARAJA'S DAUGHTER (1994).
• Luigi Montefiori wrote the script for Kabir's SANDOKAN movie IL
FIGLIO DI SANDOKAN (1998), together with three
other writers. |
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