Apaches (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Apache |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Gottfried Kolditz |
| script | Gottfried Kolditz, Gojko Mitić |
| production | Dorothea Hildebrandt |
| music | Hans-Dieter Hosalla |
| camera | Helmut Bergmann |
| cut | Christa Helwig |
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Apachen is a GDR film drama from 1973. The eighth part of the DEFA Indian films was based on a script by Gojko Mitić , who also plays the leading role. The plot of this film was continued with the film Ulzana in 1974 . The original GDR title of the film was Apaches . The German video / DVD publications run under the reference title Apachen - Bloody Rache .
action
Subject
Mexico in 1840. Mimbreño Apaches and Mexicans live peacefully together near the American border . The Mexicans mine the rich copper deposits on the Indian territory and are supplied with food by the Mimbreños. But when silver deposits are discovered in the border area, tensions arise between Mexico and the USA. This eventually leads to a massacre of the Apaches. The remaining Indians then avenge this crime.
introduction
The Mimbreño Apaches live peacefully with the Mexicans near the Mexican Santa Rita, near the American border. There are abundant copper deposits in the Apache region. These are exploited by the Mexicans, but the Apaches receive food from them. In addition, the mine owner Ramon organizes a festival for the Indians once a year.
Bulk
But in the border region huge silver deposits are discovered by American companies. This lures American scalp hunters to Santa Rita. They put the mine owner under house arrest unnoticed, and the annual celebration takes place as usual. But during the celebrations, the Americans stage a massacre among the unarmed Indians, from which only Ulzana and a few Membreno can escape.
The Mimbreño Apaches then join forces with another Apache tribe. Ulzana now sets out with six followers to avenge the massacre of his tribe. First, they attack the Mexican mine and destroy its supplies in the process. The American scalp hunters are also pursued by the Membreno and their leader Johnson is captured.
In the meantime, the Mexican miners and their families are fleeing. In the now empty mining town, Johnson is tied up by Ulzana to die of thirst. The next night the Indians surprised the refugee trek including the Mexican soldiers. In this way they can almost completely destroy their water supplies. As a result, chaos ensues among the Mexicans the next day, most of whom shoot each other in the fight for the last water supplies. The last surviving Mexicans then disperse and will no longer come to the Indian territory.
But Officer Burton of the American Army is with a small scouting party in the Mimbreño area, since the USA and the Mexicans are on the verge of a war because of the abundant silver deposits. They discover the tied up Johnson and free him before the Apaches are back from the attack on the Mexicans. So Ulzana has to go looking for Johnson again and is captured in the pursuit of Johnson. He then tortures the Indian.
The American scalp hunters had already set up camp on Mexican territory in the sure confidence that the American army would protect them there because of the economic interests of the USA. But when the advancing Apaches surrounded the camp to free Ulzana, it became clear that the US Army was initially preparing for the fight against the Mexicans and not intervening.
Enough
The Apaches can attack the scalp hunters unmolested and finally avenge the massacre of Santa Rita. In a final duel between Ulzana and Johnson, Ulzana stabs him and leaves him in a burning hut.
Audio film
In 2004, an acoustic image description of the film was created for television broadcasts . It was produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and spoken by Wolfgang Schmidt.
Reviews
Video.de:
“One of the successful westerns from the DEFA production, in whose script the Yugoslav star of the series, Gojko Mitic, played a key role. The film is based on the diaries of European settlers from Tucson, Arizona. As in all Defa-Westerns, the care taken in reconstructing the ethnic elements comes into play. "
Friedrich Salow, Filmspiegel, Berlin / GDR, No. 15, 1973:
"Various circumstances limit the artistic realization of the material: a sociologizing-historicizing tendency, a still existing tendency to write history instead of writing, the drawing of fixed characters from the start that represent certain groups and intellectual attitudes, the renunciation of internal conflicts , Changes and developments in people - which overall suppresses the possibility of artistic generalization. "
See also
- Mangas Coloradas (with the historical template of the events)
- Ulzana , the sequel to this film
Web links
- Apaches in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Apaches at filmportal.de
- Apaches at the DEFA Foundation