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Man Friday(Movie, 1975)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 55min | Genre: Adventure
Man FridayRating: 3.5/5 (with 1313 votes)
Man Friday is a 1975 adventure film directed by Jack Gold and starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree. It is adapted from the 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, but reverses the roles, portraying Crusoe as a blunt, stiff Englishman, while the native he calls Man Friday is much more intelligent and empathic. The film can be regarded as being critical of western civilization, against which it draws a contrasting picture of Caribbean tribal life. ()
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About Man Friday

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

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Man Friday (Extract) 1975(Trailer, 1:27)

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Additional Information

Based on: "Robinson Crusoe" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 14 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/10/1975 (World premiere: 03/04/1975)
Director: Jack Gold
Producer: Gerald Green
Screenwriter: Adrian Mitchell
Film Editor: Anne V. Coates
Director of Photography: Alex Phillips Jr.
Composer: Carl Davis
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Moi, Vendredi"
Keywords: deserted island

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