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Blutsbrüder

Director: Werner Wolfgang Wallroth, 99 Min., Color, Feature Film
Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, 1975

Film/Video Format
35 mm
Length in m
2729
English Title
Blood Brothers
Premiere Date
Release Date (for Cinema)
Film poster for "Blutsbrüder"

(Dir.: Werner Wolfgang Wallroth, 1975)

Short Summary (English)

In 1864, Anerican soldiers attacked a Cheyenne camp and torched the Indian’s tents, killing all inhabitants. One of the soldiers, Harmonica, rebelled against this atrocity by burning the American flag. For this deed, he received the death sentence. However, Harmonica manages to escape from prison, saving the life of Fawn, a Cheyenne Indian girl. He subsequently finds sanctuary in the Cheyenne camp. Fawn’s brother, Hard Rock, a vice-chief, slowly overcomes his abhorrence of whites and even allows his sister to become the wife of the white soldier. Once again, however, a disaster is about to be unleashed upon the Indian village. As the warriors are away on a hunting expedition, the soldiers return to the camp and massacre all the women and children - Fawn is also killed in the attack.

 

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Film still for "Blutsbrüder"

(Dir.: Werner Wolfgang Wallroth, 1975) Photography: Manfred Damm

Film still for "Blutsbrüder"

(Dir.: Werner Wolfgang Wallroth, 1975) Photography: Manfred Damm

Film Crew

Director
  • Werner Wolfgang Wallroth
Script
  • Werner Wolfgang Wallroth
Camera
  • Hans Heinrich
Film Editing
  • Helga Emmrich
Cast
  • Dean Reed (Harmonika)
  • Gojko Mitić (Harter Felsen)
  • Gisela Freudenberg (Rehkitz)
  • Jörg Panknin (Joe)
  • Cornel Ispas (Big Fred)
  • Toma Dimitriu (Grauer Elch)
  • Iurie Darie (Bill Simmons)
  • Manea Alexandru (Leutnant)
  • Elena Sereda (Dicke Frau)
  • Cornelia Turian (Große Frau)
  • Eugenia Bosinceanu (Frau von Simmons)
  • Joachim Schönitz (Barkeeper)
  • Sina Fiedler (Serviererin)
  • Fred Ludwig (Gast)
  • Pedro Hebenstreit (Gast)
  • Roland Kuchenbuch (Reporter)
  • Eckhard Becker (Reporter)
  • Peter Fabers (Soldat)
  • Wulf Bringmann (Soldat)
  • Horst Papke (Fotograf)
  • Rose Becker (Eine Frau)
Assistant Director
  • Dirk Jungnickel
  • Nicolae Gheorghi
Assistant Camera
  • Manfred Damm
  • Dietrich Pohl
Scenario
  • Dean Reed
  • Wolfgang Ebeling (Mitarbeit)
Production Design
  • Heinz Röske
  • Marlene Willmann
Script Editing
  • Hans-Joachim Wallstein
Music
  • Karl-Ernst Sasse
Sound
  • Christian Müller
  • Günter Witt
Costume Design
  • Günther Pohl
Make-Up
  • Willi Gesche
Production Management
  • Gerrit List
Unit Production Management
  • Manfred Peetz
  • Fritz Frost
DEFA Photography
  • Manfred Damm
Dubbing (Dubbing Actor)
  • Wolfgang Ostberg (Harmonika)
  • Thomas Kästner (Harter Felsen)
  • Lothar Schellhorn (Big Fred)
  • Heinz Suhr (Grauer Elch)
  • Eberhard Mellies (Bill Simmons)
  • Karl Sturm (Leutnant)

Awards

  • Filmpreis des Jugendmagazins "Neues Leben" (1975): an Darsteller - Gojko Mitić

Short Summary (German)

Bei einem Massaker in einem Dorf der Cheyenne am Sand Creek 1864 zerbricht der Soldat "Harmonika" angewidert die amerikanische Flagge. Nachdem er dem Indianermädchen "Rehkitz" das Leben gerettet hat, sucht er die Freundschaft der Indianer. Langsam überwindet "Harter Felsen" seine Vorurteile. "Harmonika" heiratet dessen Schwester "Rehkitz". Eines Tages wird sie von Weißen ermordet. "Harmonika" sucht und findet den Täter, kann sich aber zur Rache nicht entschließen; resigniert ergibt er sich dem Alkohol. Doch dann sieht er den in Gefangenschaft geratenen Freund "Harter Felsen", befreit ihn, und sie werden Blutsbrüder. Gemeinsam ziehen sie mit den Cheyenne in den Freiheitskampf.

(Quelle: Das zweite Leben der Filmstadt Babelsberg. DEFA-Spielfilme 1946-1992)

Short Summary (Other Languages)

Dopo il massacro di Sand Creek nel 1864, il soldato "Armonica" straccia disgustato la bandiera americana. Dopo aver salvato "Piccolo cerbiatto", il soldato cerca l'amicizia con gli indiani. Persino "Roccia dura" supera i suoi pregiudizi e lascia che "Armonica" sposi sua sorella "Piccolo cerbiatto". La ragazza, però, verrà uccisa dai bianchi. "Armonica" cerca e trova l'assassino, ma non riesce a vendicare la ragazza. Rassegnato, il soldato si da all'alcol fin quando non vede che "Roccia dura" è stato fatto prigioniero. Una volta liberato, i due diventeranno fratelli di sangue e continueranno con i Cheyenne la battaglia per la libertà. (Italienisch)

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