Headless Rider (1973)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Headless rider |
| Original title | Vzadnik bes golowy |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 104 (German version 96) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vladimir Vainschtok |
| script | Wladimir Wainschtok Pawel Finn after Thomas Mayne Reid |
| production |
Gracha Mekinyan Jakow Riwosch |
| music | Nikita Bogoslowski |
| camera | Konstantin Ryschow |
| occupation | |
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Rider without a head (original title: Wsadnik bes golowy ; russian Всадник без головы ) is a 1973 western staged by Vladimir Vainschtok in the Soviet Union . The film, based on a story by Thomas Mayne Reid , was released in GDR cinemas on April 5, 1974 .
action
Texas, in the 19th century, just after the Civil War. In the Lone Star State, marauding Comaniacs are an everyday danger. Louise Pointdexter, who has recently moved in, is courting two men: the arrogant and vengeful Cassius Calhoun and the dashing but poor cowboy Maurice Gerald. Calhoun is planning to put his rival out of the way when Louise's young brother is murdered.
All the evidence points to Gerald as the murderer. It tells of the appearance of a mysterious man on the Pointdexters' plantations - a headless rider. After many eerie and confusing events, the riddle of this rider and thus the murder of Henry Pointdexter can be solved.
criticism
"An exotic, adventurous entertainment film set in a western setting in thickly applied colors", wrote the lexicon of international films .
Remarks
One of the few Soviet films that took on the western subject. Cuba was involved in the production.
Web links
- Headless horseman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ No coproduction according to the Lenfilm film directory
- ↑ http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/1204/annot/
- ↑ Headless rider. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .