Into the West
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Into the West |
| Original title | Into the West |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2005 |
| Production company |
Dreamworks Television |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Western film |
| production | Larry Rapaport |
| music | Geoff Zanelli |
| First broadcast | June 10 - July 22, 2005 (USA) on TNT |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 6 - June 10, 2006 on premiere |
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Into the West (Original title: Into the West ) is a mini-series consisting of six 90-minute films and was produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks . Robert Dornhelm acted as the director of the series . It was broadcast in the United States from June 10 to July 15, 2005. In Germany, Premiere showed them as six double episodes from May 6 to June 10, 2006.
The series is from the perspective of the white American Jacob Wheeler (Matthew Settle) and Lakota - Indian love the buffalo (Joseph M. Marshall III.) Told. In a period from 1820 , the year of the first expedition through the west to California , to 1895 , when the west was considered fully developed, it describes the lives of the families of the two narrators over several generations. There are real and fictional people and events that are part of the plot.
There are around 250 characters in the miniseries. In addition, 15,000 extras took part.
Into the West was released on DVD in the USA . Among the bonus material are interviews with the producers, the director and the actors.
In the meantime, a DVD box has also been released in Germany which, in addition to the six episodes on three DVDs, also contains a bonus disc with extensive additional material.
action
Episode 1: Departure
The buffalo loved by a vision that announces that his culture will be destroyed by that of the white man. Jacob Wheeler is a wheelwright in Virginia dissatisfied and the settlers closes treck to Jedediah Smith on. He returns with the sister of Den who love buffalo , woman with the thundering heart , as his wife.
Episode 2: Survival
Jacob and his wife move with other family members on an arduous journey with a column of settlers to California. Some settlers die on the way and Jacob is left alone, seriously injured.
Among the Lakota dispute arises as to whether the technology should accept the white man to their advantage or not.
Episode 3: Gold Rush
In 1849 the gold rush breaks out in California. Even Jethro Wheeler , who is now with woman with Thunderheart lives together, the greed that is his undoing succumbs. Her daughter Margret Heller Schein finds her father Jacob and a husband in town. The Lakotas and other Indian tribes sign a treaty with the American Army , but realize that it will not bring them peace.
Episode 4: The Iron Horse
During the construction of the railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific is the story further Wheelers that the wheelwright Wheeler to Robert and Clara , which the worker Abe Wheeler and the army scouts Jacob Wheeler Jr.
Margret Heller Schein joins the Cheyenne and is accepted into their tribe. She returns to her mother's Indian culture until the US Army, contrary to appropriate peace treaties, destroys the Cheyenne village and takes her prisoner.
Episode 5: Knowledge is Power
Led by Crazy Horse (Tatanka Means), the Lakota Indians defend the sacred Black Hills. You defeat General Custer's army at Little Big Horn . But the victory leads to an even greater hatred of the Indians. Meanwhile Margaret (Irene Bedard) is taken to a reservation where she tries to cope with the sad situation.
Episode 6: Ghost Dance
A mysterious shaman promises the Indians the liberation of their country with the ghost dance . But the brutality of the US Army reached its climax with the Wounded Knee massacre . Jacob and Den Die Büffel Lieben are reunited. Will the dark vision of Den Die Büffel Lieben come true or does the Ghost Dance have a hopeful future?
criticism
"Grippingly staged history lesson"
“Using the example of a family, the epic mini-series visualizes the most important stages in the development of the so-called Wild West in a visually impressive and historically largely precise manner: departure, gold rush, railway construction, Oregon trek, Indian wars, Christianization. Although the main focus is on the pioneers, the film does not omit Native American history. "
Web links
- Into the West in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- First broadcast dates at Episoden.tv