Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) |
Summary |
Here East German celebrity Gojko Mitic stars his very first Indianer film, or East German Western, as the fearless chief Tokei-ihto, whose Dakota tribe is being driven from the land of their ancestors. Based on the carefully researched fiction of Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, it became East Germany's answer to the West German fascination with author Karl May. This production began the most successful series of box office hits in the history of East German cinema. Although the Native Americans have been assured of their lands, adjacent to the Black Hills, by contract, the whites want to expel them. Meanwhile, gold has been discovered and the unscrupulous settler, Red Fox, demands that Mattotaupa, chief of the Dakota Bears Clan, reveal the location of gold deposits. Mattotaupa refuses and is stabbed to death by Red Fox in the presence of his son Tokei-ihto ... As in most East German Westerns, the Native Americans emerge victorious against the capitalist Americans |
Notes |
Title from title frames |
Credits |
Camera, Jaroslav Tuzar ; editing, Ilse Peters ; music, Wilhelm Neef |
Cast |
Gojko Mitić, Jiří Vršťala, Rolf Römer, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Gerhard Rachold, Horst Jonischkan |
Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1966 |
Subject |
Welskopf, Elisabeth Charlotte, 1901-1979 -- Film adaptations
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SUBJECT |
Welskopf, Elisabeth Charlotte, 1901-1979. fast (OCoLC)fst01733978 |
Subject |
Massacres -- Drama
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Indians of North America -- Drama.
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Indians of North America.
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Massacres.
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Drama
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Subject |
United States.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Drama.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Mach, Josef, director.
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Mitic, Gojko, actor.
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Vršťala, Jiří, actor.
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Römer, Rolf, actor.
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Hardt-Hardtloff, Hans, 1906-1974, actor.
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DEFA Film Library.
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