Die verrückte Geschichte der Welt
Original Title: History of the World Part I
Country of Origin:  United States
Production year: 1981
Director: Mel Brooks
Rating: Rating
UPC [Locale]: 4-010232-046352
Running time: 1:32 (92 Min.)
Casetype: HD Keep Case
Format: Color, 2.35:1 Widescreen
DVD-Format: Single-Sided, Double-Layered
Released: July 16, 2009
Collection type: Owned (#542)
Status: Available
Purchase date: September 08, 2013
Purchase price: €9,98
Purchase place:  • OFDB
Review (movie): 8 / 10
Review (video): 9 / 10
Review (audio): 7 / 10
Review (extras): 2 / 10
Overview
Was Sie schon immer über die Weltgeschichte wissen wollten, aber nie erfuhren – Mel Brooks zeigt es: Von der Steinzeit über das Römische Reich bis hin zur Französischen Revolution – erleben Sie Mel Brooks in einem gagreichen Streifzug durch die Geschichte: Ob als durchgeknallter König Louis XIV oder als Stand-Up-Philosoph im „Ceasar's Palace“ – er enthüllt die ungeschminkte Wahrheit hinter dem Chaos. Pleiten, Pech und Pannen verfolgen den Weg des Homo Sapiens schon seit Menschengedenken und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht... Ein monumentaler Spaß und Klassiker vom Meister der Komödie, mit witzigen Auftritten zahlreicher Gaststars, darunter Orson Welles und „Playboy“-Erfinder Hugh Hefner.
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Genres
Comedy
Studios
Production Studios:
 • Twentieth Century-Fox
 • Brooksfilms
Media Companies:
 • Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Audio format
English  DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
German  DTS 5.1
French  DTS 5.1
Italian  DTS 5.1
Polish  Dolby Digital Surround
Spanish  DTS 5.1
Turkish  Dolby Digital Surround
Hungarian  Dolby Digital Surround
Music Only  DTS 5.1
Subtitles
Bulgarian
Croatian
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Trivia
Turkish
Discs
# Description A B DS DL A DL B
1Main Feature
Features
Scene Access, Feature Trailers, Featurettes
Crew
Direction
Mel Brooks....Director
Writing
Mel Brooks....Writer
Production
Mel Brooks....Producer
Cinematography
Woody Omens....Director of Photography
French Revolution Sequence
Paul Wilson....Director of Photography
Film Editing
John C. Howard....Film Editor
Music
John Morris....Composer
Mel Brooks....Song Writer
Ronny Graham....Song Writer
Sound
Gene S. Cantamessa....Production Sound Mixer
Robert R. Rutledge....Supervising Sound Editor
Scott A. Hecker....Sound Editor
Arthur Piantadosi....Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Les Fresholtz....Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tex Rudloff....Sound Re-Recording Mixer
French Revolution Sequence
Mike Sale....Production Sound Mixer
Art
Harold Michelson....Production Designer
Albert J. Whitlock....Visual Effects
Patricia Norris....Costume Designer
Norman Newberry....Art Director
Nancy Martinelli....Costume Designer
Jered Edd Green....Costume Designer
Robert Norin....Make-up Artist
French Revolution Sequence
Stuart Craig....Production Designer
Bob Cartwright....Art Director
David Murphy....Costume Designer
Jill Carpenter....Make-up Artist
Eric Allwright....Make-up Artist
Cast
Mel Brooks....Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, Jacques, King Louis XVI
Dom DeLuise....Emperor Nero
Madeline Kahn....Empress Nympho
Harvey Korman....Count de Monet
Cloris Leachman....Madame Defarge
Ron Carey....Swiftus
Gregory Hines....Josephus
Pamela Stephenson....Mademoiselle Rimbaud
Shecky Green....Marcus Vindictus
Sid Caesar....Chief Caveman
Mary-Margaret Humes....Miriam
Orson Welles....Narrator (voice)
Prehistoric Man
Rudy DeLuca
Leigh French
Richard Karron
Susette Carroll
Sammy Shore
J.J. Barry
Earl Finn
Suzanne Kent
Michael Champion
 The Roman Empire
Howard Morris....Court Spokesman
Rudy DeLuca....Captain Mucus
Charlie Callas....Soothsayer
Dena Dietrich....Competence
Paul Mazursky....Roman Officer
Ron Clark....Stoned Soldier #1
Jack Riley....Stoned Soldier #2
Art Metrano....Leonardo DaVinci
Diane Day....Caladonia
Henny Youngman....Chemist
Hunter von Leer....Lt. Bob
Fritz Feld....Maitre 'D
Hugh Hefner....Entrepreneur
Pat McCormick....Plumbing Salesman
Barry Levinson....Column Salesman
Sid Gould....Barber/Bloodletter
Ronny Graham....Oedipus
Jim Steck....Gladiator
John Myhers....Leader of Senate
Lee Delano....Wagon Driver
Robert B. Goldberg....Senator #1
Alan U. Schwartz....Senator #2
Jay Burton....Senator #3
Robert Zappy....Roman Citizen
Ira Miller....Roman Citizen
Milt Freedman....Roman Citizen
Johnny Silver....Small Liar
Charles Thomas Murphy....Auctioneer
Rod Haase....Roman Officer
Eileen Saki....Slave
John Hurt....Jesus
Disciples
Henry Kaiser
Zale Kessler
Anthony Messina
Howard Mann
Sandy Helberg
Mitchell Bock
Earl Finn
Gilbert Lee
Game Show Girls
Molly Basler
Deborah Dawes
Christine Dickinson
Vestal Virgins
Lisa Sohm
Michele Drake
Jeana Tomasino
Lisa Welch
Janis Schmitt
Heidi Sorenson
Karen Morton
Kathy Collins
Lori Sutton
Lou Mulford
 The Spanish Inquisition
Jackie Mason....Jew #1
Ronny Graham....Jew #2
Phil Leeds....Chief Monk
 The French Revolution
Jack Carter....Rat Vendor
Jan Murray....Nothing Vendor
Andreas Voutsinas....Bearnaise
Spike Milligan....Monsieur Rimbaud
John Hillerman....Rich Man
Sydney Lassick....Applecore Vendor
Jonathan Cecil....Poppinjay
Andrew Sachs....Gerard
Fiona Richmond....Queen
Nigel Hawthorne....Citizen Official
Bella Emberg....Baguette
Geoffrey Larder....Footman
George Lane Cooper....Executioner
Stephanie Marrian....Lady Marie
Royce Mills....Duke D'Honnefleur
Mike Cottrell....Tartuffe
Gerald Stadden....Le Fevre
John Gavin....Marche
Rusty Goff....Le Muff
 Coming Attractions
Scott Henderson
Michael Miller
Royce D. Applegate