"I misteri della giungla nera" (1991) TV mini-series

Director:

Kevin Connor

Writers:

Sandro Petraglia (writer)
Stefano Rulli (writer)

Release Date:

January 1991 (Germany)

Plot:

In British ruled India, an army officer lost his daugher when she was a child. Now after a very long time he is about to find her. But she falls in love with a native Indian, who was also a freedom fighter.

Plot Keywords:

TV Mini-Series | Based On Novel

Cast

  (Series Credited cast)

Stacy Keach	...	Colonel Edward Corishant
Virna Lisi	...	Sara Corishant
John Rhys-Davies	...	O'Connor
Kabir Bedi	...	Kammamuri
Derrick Branche	...	Mohan Singh
Günther Maria Halmer	...	Stefan Krüger
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy	...	Deborah Corishant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gabrielle Anwar	...	Ada Corishant
Anthony Calf	...	Richard
Amerjit Deu	...	Tremal Naik
Ayesha Dharker	...	Young girl
Ennio Fantastichini	...	Farah
Sancho Gracia	...	Father Flores
Jessica Marshall-Gardiner	...	Young Deborah
Sophie Renoir	...	Sonali

Also Known As:

The Mysteries of the Dark Jungle

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | France | Germany | Austria

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

A compelling adventure

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is actually a rather interesting miniseries. I saw it when i was 8-10 years old and re-watched it many times. what keeps you hooked is really the atmosphere, the details, the lovable characters and the subplots.

In the beginning, a palace of an Indian rajah is attacked. A young boy, the prince, is saved by his father's warrior, along with his nanny and her daughter. They have to flee as the rajah and his wife are dead and the palace devastated. The warrior decides it is best to leave that life behind, so he becomes a fisherman and pretends to be the boy's father.

Some years later, a British colonel arrives to India with his two daughters. As they visit the city,they see a parade and the new rajah(who is also an evil magician), ride an elephant. He will greet them. But later, the colonel's younger and most beloved daughter will disappear. Most of the events take place years later, when the characters grow up, the Indian prince meets the English girl...

From there, many developments follow, and it is interesting to observe both real drama(colonel's anger and grief, the family conflict, another character's alcoholism) and the more mysterious events, trapped between magic, illusion and imagination(the evil's magician hypnoses, the cult of Khali, the eclipse, etc.)This series is not to miss, especially for children, because you really get to care about the characters. And despite some scary and sad (an important character dies) moments, it all ends well.