Ulzana (film)

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Movie
Original title Ulzana
Country of production GDR , Romania
original language German
Publishing year 1974
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gottfried Kolditz
script Gottfried Kolditz
Gojko Mitić
production Dorothea Hildebrandt
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Helmut Bergmann
cut Christa Helwig
occupation

Ulzana is a DEFA Indian film by the film director Gottfried Kolditz from 1974. The film was produced by the DEFA “Red Circle” working group.

action

The film is set in Arizona in the late 1840s. In the war against Mexico from 1846 to 1848, the USA conquered 600,000 square kilometers of Apache land. Business for the new masters in Tucson is doing well.

The US government approved government funding for the Apaches. However, the men from the "Tucson Ring" reap the funds themselves and deliver spoiled goods to the reservations. The Mimbrenos Apaches, who until then lived by collecting wild fruits and hunting small animals, are building an irrigation system. Their yields of corn, melons and other crops are so great that they can trade in the surplus produce. In doing so, they have taken a great step forward in their development, which opens up favorable opportunities for future peaceful coexistence with white Americans.

But Tucson shareholders fear that they will lose their lucrative business and step in. With violence they fight the achievements of the Indians. A life-and-death struggle begins for Chief Ulzana and his little people. Ulzana's wife is kidnapped and shot by Captain Burton.

background

The western shows the progress of the Apaches in the middle of the 19th century and the related discontent of the white Americans in Tucson , Arizona . As in the film Apaches , here the efforts of the Apache chief Ulzana and his tribe members to be peaceful with their white neighbors are shown living together clearly.

Ulzana was made as the ninth DEFA Indian film. The film was shot in Romania and Uzbekistan. As with his previous films, great importance was attached to historically correct representation. Ulzana was actually a chief of the Chiricahua Apache tribe .

The original GDR title of the film was Ulzana . The title Ulzana - Fate and Hope can also be found on the covers of German DVD publications .

criticism

“Despite the comparatively coherent depiction of the motives and causes of the Indian wars in the previous century, little more than a romantic robber pistol in which the Indians represent the western virtues and the whites represent their decline. Cautious in depicting violence. "

- Lexicon of international film

"... often smarter in its historical observations and conclusions than in its structure and presentation."

- Hembus, Joe: Western Lexicon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulzana. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Hembus, Joe : Western Lexicon. 1324 films from 1894–1978 (Heyne books, no. 7048). Revised paperback edition. Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00767-0