White Wolves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | White Wolves |
| Country of production | GDR , Yugoslavia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Konrad Petzold Boško Bošković |
| script | Günter Karl |
| production |
DEFA -Studio for feature films, group “Red Circle” BOSNA-FILM Sarajevo |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Eberhard Borkmann |
| cut | Thea Richter |
| occupation | |
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White Wolves is a DEFA Indian film from 1969 about the time after the last Indian Wars . The film is a sequel to Trail of the Falcon .
action
A group of four Dakota Indians, led by Far-Scouting Falcon chief, roam the Black Hills in winter . They want to join the Cheyenne tribal group under Chief Little Wolf who fled their Indian reservation . At the same time, a transport from the dealer Sam Blake arrives at Fort Robinson . Blake is in control of the gold trade in the Black Hills, which prevents fellow miner Harrington from expanding his business. Blake also transports the money for the mining company GMI. In order to get Blake into financial difficulties, Bashan's gang robbed the money transports several times. Bashan is head of the gold mine guards and acts on Harrington's behalf. On the way back from a robbery he shoots Blue Hair , the chief's wife. Falke tries unsuccessfully to kill Bashan at the mine . Based on these events, Harrington enforces the appointment of his employee Sleek as deputy sheriff. Sheriff is former prospector Pat Patterson . Together with Peter Hille , he wants to ensure law and order in Tanglewood . When Patterson transports money himself, Bashan, with Sleek's help, takes control of Tanglewood. Harrington can now easily pressure Blake and demand payment of the stolen funds. Meanwhile, Hille finds out that Harrington himself was behind the robberies. When Bashan also tries to rob Patterson of the money, Falke comes to his aid, and the attack fails. Together they ride to Tanglewood and hide in the sheriff's office. Patterson is no longer able to take action against Harrington because Blake has defected to Harrington and the Justice of the Peace is being held by Harrington's men. Far-sighting falcon can leave the office and kill his wife's murderer, but is shot himself in the process.
Historical background
The film depicts the situation in the USA after 1879. Characteristic for this period are power struggles between newly founded companies. There is historical evidence that the Cheyenne erupted from its reserve .
Trivia
The shooting took place in the High Tatras , in the Dinaric Mountains , in a limestone quarry near Halle and near Langerwisch .
The buildings in the film town Tanglewood near Langerwisch had to be guarded because the mahogany wood used could also be used to build dachas .
In addition to the foreign-language actors Gojko Mitić (again Karl Sturm), Barbara Brylska (again Annekathrin Bürger), Milan Jablonský (again Lothar Schellhorn), Slobodan Dimitrijević (Klaus Piontek) and Slobodan Velimirović (Norbert Christian), two German actors were also dubbed: Karl Zugowski by Kurt Kachlicki and Jochen Thomas by Werner Schulz-Wittan.
Reviews
“Horst Schulze (Harrington), Rolf Hoppe (Bashan) and Helmut Schreiber (Blake) fanned out the difficult game of financial power in a remarkably differentiated manner. Unfortunately, the positive heroes did not have the same psychological credibility. Fred Delmare, the deputy sheriff type, still has most of his acting skills, and Gerry Wolff also uses great art for a small role. Holger Mahlich owes the sheriff Patterson's male profile, while Gojko Mitić, as the great chief, has more artistry and sport to bring into play than rousing acting. "
"The basic lines of his subject ... are not that wrong, and" White Wolves "would be the first realistic western, if historical fidelity alone was enough to make a film. ... But in the Wild West, at least in the image of the Wild West implanted in us by the American film, social backgrounds are less of interest than, let's use the big word, mythical. "
“The stereotypes of the Western are artfully converted into propaganda against the exploitative and power-hungry capitalism. The technical and representational perfection only suffers from the penetrance with which dialogue is confused with agitation - yet the film remains worth seeing from 16 years on. "
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel (ed.): Gojko Mitic, Mustangs, torture stakes. The DEFA Indian films , Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997.
- Charles P. Henry : White Wolves , Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1970.
- Günter Karl, Karl Heinz Berger : Indian War in the Black Hills . 1st edition. Part 1: Trail of the Falcon , Part 2: White Wolves . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00387-4 (book on the film).
- Film for you. No. 37/69, film program for White Wolves , ed. by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb , Berlin 1969.
Web links
- White Wolves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- White wolves at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank-Burkhard Habel (ed.): Gojko Mitic, Mustangs, Marterpfähle. The DEFA Indian films , Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997, p. 58, ISBN 3-89602-120-6
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: progress-film.de ) (PDF).
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 275/1969