Pirates is a 1986 adventure-comedy film written by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski and directed by Polanski. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. The film begins with Captain Red stranded aboard a raft at sea with his first mate, Frog , both of whom are presumably close to death from dehydration. After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish Galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a shipwide mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls... in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde , the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king. Large amounts of explosions and gunfights occur as they recruit a crew of cutthroats to win over the gold throughout the remainder of the film.
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| Release date: | May 8, 1986 |
| Directed by: | Roman Polanski |
| Runtime: | 124 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tarak Ben Ammar |
| Editor: | Hervé de Luze, William H. Reynolds |
| Music by: | Philippe Sarde |
| Cinematography: | Witold Sobociński |
| Screenplay by: | Roman Polanski, John Brownjohn, Gérard Brach |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure |