Trail of the Falcon (1968)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Trail of the falcon |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gottfried Kolditz |
| script | Günter Karl |
| production | DEFA studio for feature films, group "Red Circle" |
| music |
Karl-Ernst Sasse , Wolfgang Meyer |
| camera | Otto Hanisch |
| cut | Helga Krause |
| occupation | |
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Trail of the Falcon is a DEFA Indian film about the displacement of the North American natives by white settlers and prospectors . The alternative title is Burning Tents in the Black Mountains .
action
1875. A peaceful encounter between the Dakota Indian chief Far-Sighted Falcon and two gold prospectors in the Black Hills, a promontory of the Rocky Mountains. The chief predicts the invasion of further prospectors. In the following council meeting the Indian tribe split up. Some want to move to an Indian reservation, the group around long-sighted falcons, however, remains in their area. While the next prospectors are already arriving by train, Falke finds a herd of buffalo shot down . Without further ado, he ambushes the Union Pacific train, but has to withdraw. On the train is also the businessman Bludgeon , with whom Falke has a personal enmity. Bludgeon claims to own the land with the gold deposits and sells lots to newcomers and army officers. He drives out local gold prospectors. When a prospector and three of his people perish, he blames the Indians. He incites the residents of Tanglewood town to attack and kill the Indians in their village. Unaware of the split in the tribe, they only hit the part who wanted to move into the reserve. Falcon then raids Tanglewood and burns the town down. The army intervenes and feels compelled to take action against the Indians. Falke faces the fight, on the one hand to give his now reunited tribe a head start, on the other hand to get revenge on Bludgeon. The dramatic climax of the film is the death of Bludgeon when he fell off a rock.
There is a sequel with White Wolves .
Historical background
The film is set in 1875. Gold had been found in the Black Hills . The US government tried unsuccessfully to buy the area from the Lakota Indians. After that the Indians should be forcibly resettled in reservations . The fact that the huge herds of bison , which served the Indians as a source of food, was slaughtered historically .
Trivia
The film was shot near Potsdam-Babelsberg and in the Caucasus with the help of the Grusia-Film Tbilissi cinema studio.
The months of filming at an altitude of 2500 meters in the Caucasus were hampered by rainfall and a landslide.
The train of the 1875 Union Pacific locomotive was prepared by VEB Lokomotivbau "Karl Marx" Babelsberg especially for the film from an old shunting locomotive.
Reviews
“In one relationship - and this is certainly with the right intention to show the consistency of American methods of subjugation of yesterday and today - the director did a little too much: in the broad representation of the fighting. They, as well as the scenes taking place in the inn, could have been deleted without the statement having lost any of its clarity. "
“Above all, it is praiseworthy that the filmmakers did not practice primitive black and white painting, that in addition to the villain Bashan (Rolf Hoppe) and Fletcher (Hartmut Beer) there are also white people who want to live with the Indians, who are not burning and go out murderously against the indigenous people, but earn their living by working. Helmut Schreiber as Sam Blake showed a brave, real-thinking settler who was made hard by the hard life in the West. "
“The film introduces approaches to illuminating the conquest of the Wild West as a chapter of rude capitalism, but essentially leans towards the familiar patterns of this type of adventure film. From 14. "
“One of the strongest DEFA Indian films from an artistic and socially critical point of view. Action-packed, well played, quick cut. "
synchronization
The Yugoslav, Polish, Czech and Georgian performers have been dubbed as follows:
- Gojko Mitić (Far-Spying Falcon) by Karl Sturm
- Barbara Brylska (Catherine Emerson) by Annekathrin Bürger
- Lali Meszchi (blue hair) by Sonja Stokowy
- Milan Jablonský (Bad Face) by Lothar Schellhorn
- Rodam Tschelidse (lynx eye) by Jörg Knoche
- Laurenti Koschadse (Gray Bear) by Robert Trösch
- Albert Giorgadse (Jumping Water) by Klaus Bergatt
- Otar Koberidze (Tasunka-witko) by Fred Alexander
- Giorgi Tadishvili (Captain Ronald) from Walter Amtrup
- Duchana Zerodse (mother of Blauhaar) by Ruth Kommerell
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel (ed.): Gojko Mitic, Mustangs, torture stakes. The DEFA Indian films , Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997.
- Günter Karl, Karl Heinz Berger : Indian War in the Black Hills . Part 1: Trail of the Falcon , Part 2: White Wolves . 1st edition. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-327-00387-4 (book on the film).
- Film for you , No. 41/68. Film program for the track of the falcon , ed. by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb , Berlin 1968
Web links
- Maltese Falcon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trace of the falcon at filmportal.de
- Trail of the falcon at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank-Burkhard Habel (ed.): Gojko Mitic, Mustangs, Marterpfähle. The DEFA Indian films . Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89602-120-6 , p. 46
- ↑ progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 354/1969
- ↑ Trail of the Falcon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 2, 2017 .
