Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When they are attacked by the outlaw Bashan, Falcon strikes out for the town of Tanglewood to take on Bashan's boss, mining magnate Harrington.
Production
Yugoslavia standing in for South Dakota is gloriously unconvincing.
Acting
Gojko Mitić's stoic charisma carries the entire film.
Director
Konrad Petzold
Gojko Mitić
Weitspähender Falke
Horst Schulze
Collins P. Harrington
Barbara Brylska
Catherine Emmerson
Holger Mahlich
Pat Patterson
Slobodan Dimitrijević
Listiger Fuchs
Helmut Schreiber
Samuel "Sam" Blake
Fred Delmare
Peter Hille
Rolf Hoppe
James Besham
Karl Zugowski
Andy Sleek
Predrag 'Preža' Milinković
Indijanac David
Gerry Wolff
Josuah McGrave
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA Indianerfilme were East Germany's answer to Westerns, deliberately flipping the genre's politics to critique American genocide and capitalism.
Gojko Mitić became the biggest star in East Germany despite not speaking German—he learned all his lines phonetically for years.
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