Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)

Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa / 天空の城ラピュタ

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If there is a flying city, one naturally wonders what keeps it in the sky. The answer: once upon a time, there existed a technologically tremendously advanced civilisation that, among other things, was able to extract blue luminous crystals from certain minerals that can cancel out gravity and are therefore called Levitation Stones.

The old civilisation has long since died out, and only a few legends remain to remind us of it, fairy tales basically, in which no one believes, or at least almost no one. But there are still a few people who, for different reasons, are convinced that Laputa, the city in the sky, actually existed and still exists. One of them is the boy Pazu, who, one night, while working at the coal-fired power plant, catches the girl Sheeta, who has literally fallen from the sky. When they realise that both pirates and government agents are after Sheeta the next morning and that this may have something to do with the strange stone she wears around her neck, they flee while, at the same time, setting out to find the Castle in the Sky.

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The film is loosely based on Jonathan Swift’s story “Gulliver’s Travels” in which the hero, Gulliver, lands in the flying city of Laputa, among other places.
Wenn es eine fliegende Stadt gibt, dann fragt man sich natürlich, was sie am Himmel hält. Die Antwort: Einst existierte eine technologisch ungeheuer fortgeschrittene Zivilisation, die unter anderem in der Lage war, aus bestimmten Mineralien blau leuchtende Kristalle zu gewinnen, die die Schwerkraft aufheben können und deshalb Levitationssteine genannt werden.

Die alte Zivilisation ist längst erloschen, nur noch wenige Legenden erinnern an sie, Märchen im Grunde, an die keiner glaubt oder jedenfalls fast keiner. Doch ein paar Menschen gibt es noch, die aus unterschiedlichen Gründen davon überzeugt sind, dass Laputa, die Stadt im Himmel, tatsächlich existiert hat und immer noch existiert. Einer davon ist der Junge Pazu, der eines Nachts bei der Arbeit im Kohlekraftwerk das Mädchen Sheeta auffängt, das buchstäblich vom Himmel gefallen ist. Als sie merken, dass am nächsten Morgen sowohl Piraten als auch Agenten der Regierung hinter Sheeta her sind und dies womöglich mit dem sonderbaren Stein zu tun hat, den Sheeta um den Hals trägt, fliehen sie und machen sich gleichzeitig auf die Suche nach dem Schloss im Himmel …

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Der Film beruht lose auf Jonathan Swifts Geschichte »Gullivers Reisen«, in der der Held Gulliver unter anderem auch in der fliegenden Stadt Laputa landet.
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Una aeronave se desliza sobre un mar de nubes, en una noche de luna llena. Muska, un agente secreto del gobierno, acompaña a una chica llamada Sheeta a la fortaleza de Tedis. Repentinamente la nave es atacada por los piratas que, al igual que el gobierno, buscan el secreto de la piedra mágica de levitación que Sheeta lleva alrededor del cuello.
La piedra es la llave que abrirá las puertas de La Fortaleza Celeste, una isla flotante en medio del cielo creada por una misteriosa raza que hace mucho tiempo desapareció del planeta. Pazu, un joven muchacho, se hace amigo de Sheeta, le ayuda a escapar de sus perseguidores y juntos se disponen a resolver el misterio de la Fortaleza Celeste.
Cuando Sheeta y Pazu inician su viaje hacia la Fortaleza Celeste, ponen en marcha una cadena de acontecimientos irreversibles. En este misterioso lugar encontrarán un tesoro mucho más grande que el poder de gobernar el mundo.
Descrizione dell’editore italiano Lucky Red:
Sheeta è tenuta prigioniera dal cinico colonnello Muska a bordo di un’ aeronave. Durante il volo, in una notte rischiarata dalla luna, l’aeronave viene attaccata da una banda di pirati guidata dall’intrepida Ma Dola, che vuole impossessarsi del ciondolo che la ragazzina porta al collo. Questo ha un valore inestimabile: permette di vincere la forza di gravità e localizzare la leggendaria isola fluttuante di Laputa, dove - si racconta - sono custoditi immensi tesori. Sheeta riesce però a fuggire, finendo tra le braccia di un giovane minatore che, da quel momento, decide di proteggerla unendosi a lei nella ricerca dell’isola e dei suoi misteri.
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