In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.
Production
Romanian locations masquerading as Dakota territory—gorgeous, wrong, hypnotic
Acting
Gojko Mitić's smoldering intensity as the noble Lakota warrior
Director
Gottfried Kolditz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA Westerns were East Germany's answer to Hollywood, using American genres to critique American imperialism while carefully avoiding parallels to Soviet expansion. The irony was not lost on dissident viewers.
Gojko Mitić became Yugoslavia's biggest star through these 'Indianerfilme'—so popular that East German children wrote letters addressed to 'Weitspähender Falke, Dakota Territory.' He reportedly received them.
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