The leather stocking tales

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Movie
Original title The leather stocking tales
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1969
length approx. 350 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jean Dréville ,
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
script Morris Bessi ,
Pierre Gaspard-Huit,
Jacques Rémy ,
Walter Ulbrich ,
Paul Andréota
production DEROPA Film- und Fernseh GmbH ( Walter Ulbrich ), Franco London Film ( Henri Deutschmeister )
music George Grigoriu , Robert Mellin
camera André Zarra
cut Boris Lewin, Walter Ulbrich
occupation

The leather stocking tales , French title: Bas de Cuir , is a ZDF adventure four-part series from 1969 with Hellmut Lange in the lead role. The film adaptation is based on the leather stocking novel series by James Fenimore Cooper . The location was Romania .

action

Part 1: The game killer

In the 18th century in the English colonies of North America: The adventurer Nathaniel "Nat" Bumppo (= game killer, falcon's eye, leather sock) invades Indian land against the warning of an oncoming settler couple, where he wants to visit a farmer friend. He finds the farm abandoned by his friend, but occupied by Indians. He follows her request to witness the death of an old chief and to accompany her to her camp. There, with the Mohicans, he forms blood brotherhood with Chingachgook. A little later the promised woman, Wah-Ta-Wah , is kidnapped by hostile Indians, the Mingos . The two friends decide to separate their ways into their camp in order to free them. Nat meets the ranger Harry March and later his friend Tom Hutter. Hutter lives with his daughters Judith and Hetty in a stilt house on the Glimmersee. Hutter and March also fall into the hands of the Mingos. Nathaniel buys the two of them free, he receives Wah-Ta-Wah as a bonus. In an exchange of fire immediately after the negotiations, Hetty, who had previously intervened on her own in the enemy camp for the prisoners, is killed. After this incident, things are different again. While the Indian woman can escape herself, Nat instead of her falls into the clutches of the mingos, from which he is freed by Chingachgook.

Part 2: The Last of the Mohicans

Chingachgook has a son, Uncas, who is around 18 years old. The mother, Wah-ta-Wah, had died shortly after giving birth in a harsh winter. When he arrived, Nat had only been able to save Chingachgook and the baby. The three support the fort's two daughters, Colonel Munroe, Alice and Cora, on the way to see their father. Her scout, the Huron chief Magua, had been punished by the colonel for arson in a drunkenness and was dishonorably dismissed from his service as an Indian scout. He wanted to lead society into a trap in order to get revenge, but Nat and the Mohicans take the lead while Magua flees. Later on, the food shortages of the Delawars and the Hurons made common cause after Munroe initially refused support for the help-seekers. Fort William Henry is destroyed and all soldiers are killed, including Colonel Munroe and Major Heyward, Alice Munroe's fiancé. In the end Cora and Uncas are killed by Magua and then Magua by Nat. Chingachgook is the last of the Mohicans.

Part 3: The Fort on the Beaver River

Lederstrumpf and his friend Chingachgook make their living from deer hunting. Leather stockings do not keep the closed season. It's against the law. The sheriff locks up Leather Stockings - Chingachgook frees him. Now they are outlawed .

They flee west and arrive in Fort Henry. There they meet Major Dunham, the commander and acquaintance of Nats, as well as Lieutenant Jasper and Captain Muir, who are competing for the favor of the major's daughter Mabel. Muir has given the neighboring Sioux Indians secret information about the fort. He also sent Mabel, who had been brought to safety, a fake message that she should go back to the fort. On the way back, Nat and Chingachgook saved her from a Sioux attack. The Sioux intend to raid the fort and use a trick to lure the whites out to weaken it. Major Dunham fell in the battle against the Indians. In the end, the traitor is exposed and killed.

Part 4: The prairie

At the request of the settler chief Miles Forman, Nat takes over the management of his trek to Michilimackinac . Chingachgook accompanies him. The settlers also include a criminal organization made up of the Bush family and their seven sons. After a few days of driving, the wagon train meets the Indian tribe of the Pawnees, whose chief Weucha Nat is known and from whom the settlers are warmly received. After the journey continues, the male Bushes leave to hunt, but in reality to sell the Sioux Indians who live in the area an arsenal of weapons that they had stolen from a fort before leaving. On the way back to the trek, however, they still have to kill an alibi game, where they are surprised by Pawnees who are after the same prey. In the following duel with an Indian, one of the Bush sons is shot by his tribesman. The archer is killed on the spot, the opponent of the killed brother Bush is said to be lynched in the white camp. Chingachgook, however, cut the rope with a bullet. Later, the head of the family, Ismael Bush, incites the Pawnees and Sioux, who live peacefully side by side, against each other by killing a Sioux and directing suspicion on the Pawnees. The Sioux then attack the Pawnees' village and devastate it. In the further course the Bushs perish violently while fighting with Indians. Chingachgook kills the Sioux chief Matureh in a duel.

synchronization

The information on the German voice actors comes from synchrondatenbank.de.

role actor Voice actor
Nat Bumppo Hellmut Lange Hellmut Lange
Chingachgook Pierre Massimi Norbert Gastell
Harry March Patrick Peuvion Klaus Kindler
Tom Hutter Charles Moulin Erik Jelde
Split oak Colea Rautu Gernot Duda
Kawano G. Florin Gernot Duda
Tamenund Marc Cottel Leo Bardischewski
Colonel Munroe Otto Ambros Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Magua Ali Raffi Tommi Piper
Mathoree Ion Dichiseanu Tommi Piper
Unkas David Alexandru Manfred Seipold
Arrowhead Czach Szabolcs Manfred Seipold
Cora Munroe Loumi Jacobesco Rose-Marie Kirstein
Alice Munro Sylvie Maas-Lebot Heidi Treutler
Major Duncan Heyward Jacques Brunet Christian Wolff
Sheriff Doolittle NN Horst Naumann
Judge Temple NN Anton Reimer
Lieutenant Jasper Christian Duroc Eckart Dux
Major Dunham Daniel Crohem Hans Korte
Ishmael Bush George Demetru Wolfgang Lukschy
Weucha JP Compain Thomas Bride
Esther Bush Victoria Medea Tilli Breidenbach
Paul Hover Robert Benoit Elmar Wepper
Judith Hutter Sophie Agacinski Kathrin Ackermann

Others

The German production manager of the four-parter, Walter Ulbrich , also used parts from the film music for Treasure Island (1966), composed by Jan Hanuš and Luboš Sluka , for the background music , which he also reused in the adventure four-parter Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer (1968).

Walter Ulbrich took over from the Leatherstocking novels the first volume of The Deerslayer and the second volume of The Last of the Mohicans , as the fifth volume of the prairie , the novels 3 and 4 ( The Pathfinder and The settlers ) it adopted for the third part of The Fort at Beaver River together.

media

Film music
  • Adventure classic - original music from the legendary TV four-part series , 2 CDs, BSC Music / Cine Soundz Prudence 398.6619.2 (Germany 2001)
DVD
  • The leather stocking stories (2 DVDs), Concorde Home Entertainment 2006
literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synchrondatenbank.de accessed on March 26, 2020