Triumph of the man they called horse
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Triumph of the man they called horse |
| Original title | Triumphs of a Man Called Horse |
| Country of production | USA , Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 86 (German version 82) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Hough |
| script |
Ken Blackwell Carlos Aured |
| production | Derek Gibson |
| music | Georges Garvarentz |
| camera | John Alcott |
| cut | Roy Watts |
| occupation | |
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Triumph of the man whom they called horse (original title: Triumphs of a Man Called Horse ) is an American-Spanish Western , the John Hough in 1983 staged. The German-language premiere of the second sequel to A Man They Called Horse, after The Man They Called Horse - Part 2 (1976) , took place on March 17, 1983.
action
John Morgan has lived with the Sioux for 30 years as "the man they call a horse" (Shunka Wakan) ; he has meanwhile become their chief. In 1874 gold is discovered in the Black Hills, which was granted to the Indians six years earlier by the Treaty of Laramie . White settlers come to the area and provocateurs try to get the Sioux to break the treaty. They then expect the army to intervene and expel the natives from the area. That's why they kill people and make it appear that the Sioux are the culprits. When Morgan himself, who has always fought for peace, dies, it is up to his son Koda, who went to school in the east, and his lover of the Crow tribe, Redwing, to develop a strategy to keep the whites out of the area and the Black Hills received as a sanctuary. Their ally on the white side is Captain Cummings. In the final duel, Koda and Redwing can confront and kill the person responsible for Morgan's death, a priest.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film saw “Indian cinema based only on action and tension with questionable sympathy leadership: a white man as a leader and redeemer figure for a racial minority. Above all, the hollow peace slogans appear to be put on. " It is the "mild continuation of a classic", so cinema.de. "We can hope that we will be spared further sequels," writes Joe Hembus . Even the American critics could discover little more than an attempt to cannibalize the successful predecessor.
Remarks
The film was shot outside in Mexico, Spain and the USA.
Web links
- Triumph of the man whom they called horse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film for cut reports
Individual evidence
- ↑ Triumph of the man they called horse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film pictures at cinema.de
- ^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon - Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus - 1567 films from 1894 to today. Munich 1995, pp. 661/662
- ^ Short review of the New York Times