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Ostern
The Ostern ("Eastern"; ; or ) is a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films. The word ''Ostern'' is a portmanteau derived from the German word ''Ost'', meaning "East", and the English word ''western''. Two subgenres may be distinguished (although the terms may be used interchangeably): * Red Westerns, set in America's "Wild West" but involving radically different themes and interpretations than US Westerns. These Westerns were mostly produced in the Eastern Bloc, especially in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Examples of Red Westerns include '' Lemonade Joe or the Horse Opera'' (Czechoslovakia, 1964), '' The Sons of Great Bear'' (East Germany, 1966), ''The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians'' (Romania, 1981), and '' A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (USSR, 1987). * Easterns (Osterns) were set domestically on the steppes and Central Asian regions of the USSR, typically during the Russian Revolution or the following Civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bodyguard (1979 Film)
''The Bodyguard'' (, ''Telokhranitel'') is a 1979 Soviet Union, Soviet action film released by Tadjikfilm. It is one of the best known of the Ostern, Osterns and directed by the veteran feature and documentary maker Ali Khamraev. КиноПоиск (in Russian) Plot The setting is Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. In the post-Russian Revolution, revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Nazar (Anatoly Solonitsyn), the brains behind the Basmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolution ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Of Fire
''Miles of Fire'', ''The Burning Miles'', or ''The Fiery Miles'' (, translit. ''Ognennye versty'') is an early Red Western directed by Samson Samsonov in 1957. Often considered the earliest of the 'Red Westerns' (or 'Osterns'), it was made before the term was coined. The film is a Russian Civil War drama, focusing on the conflict between the Reds and the Whites. One-time Mosfilm actor Samsonov had a versatile directorial career prior to ''The Burning Miles'', fresh from an adaptation of Chekhov's '' The Grasshopper'' that won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival. He was later awarded the title of 'People's Artist of the USSR'. Plot Set during the Russian Civil War in 1919, as the forces of Yudenich near Petrograd and the White Guard Army, led by General Anton Denikin, lay siege to a southern city to suppress a rebellion. They block the railway, but Chekist Zavragin, in a hurry to travel south, devises a plan to use '' tachankas''— machine gun carts—to reach his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemonade Joe
''Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera'' () is a 1964 Czechoslovak musical comedy film, directed by Oldřich Lipský and written by Jiří Brdečka, based on his novel and stage play. A parody of the American Western, the film centers on a clean-living, soft-drink-selling gunfighter who takes on a town full of whiskey-swilling cowboys. The name of the eponymous hero is a pun, since the Czech word for a soft drink, ''limonáda'', can also be used figuratively in reference to a cheap, sentimental love-story. Plot In the frontier town of Stetson City, Arizona, in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, the local chanteuse, regales the saloon-goers with a sultry ballad ("Když v báru houstne dým"), while the saloon owner Doug Badman tries in vain to woo her. Two evangelists, Ezra Goodman and his daughter Winnifred, enter the bar attempting to drum up interest in their temperance movement, but the saloon's hard-drinking cowboys scorn them. Into the fracas st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Sun Of The Desert
''White Sun of the Desert'' () is a 1970 Soviet Ostern film. Its blend of action comedy, music and drama made it highly successful at the Soviet box-office and resulted in a number of memorable quotes. It retains high domestic approval. Its main theme song, "Your Noble Highness Lady Fortune" ( Ваше благородие, госпожа удача, music: Isaac Schwartz, lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava, performed by Pavel Luspekayev) became a hit. The film is watched by Russian cosmonauts before most space launches as a good luck ritual. Plot The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (modern Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. The movie opens with a panoramic shot of a bucolic Russian countryside. Katerina Matveyevna, Sukhov's beloved wife, is standing in a field. Awakening from this daydream, Sukhov is walking through the Central Asian desert – a stark contrast to his homeland. He find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elusive Avengers
''The Elusive Avengers'' (, translit. ''Neulovimye mstiteli'') is a 1967 Soviet action adventure film by Mosfilm. Directed by Edmond Keosayan, the screenplay by Keosayan and Sergei Yermolinsky is loosely based on the novel ''Red Devils'' by ,English DVD cover. which was previously adapted in 1923. The film is an example of Ostern, set in Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923. Two sequels followed, ''The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers'' (1968) and '' The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers'' (1971). Synopsis The film is a screening of a story about four youngsters who become heroes of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. May 1920. Danka Shchus, orphaned son of a Red revolutionary sailor, whose father was tortured and executed by the warlord Sidor Lyuty before his eyes, and his sister Ksanka join Valerka, a former schoolboy, and Yashka, a devil-may-care gypsy. The informal White Army bandits (Cossacks of the anarchist Ata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sons Of The Great Bear
''The Sons of Great Bear'' (; literally, The Sons of the Great She-Bear) is a 1966 East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role of Tokei-ihto. The script was adapted from the eponymous series of novels by author Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, and the music composed by Wilhelm Neef. The picture is a revisionist Western, pioneering the genre of the Ostern, and emphasises the positive portrayal of Native Americans, while presenting the Whites as antagonists. It is one of the most successful pictures produced by the DEFA film studio, known for its series of "Indian films". Plot In 1874, the U.S. government encroaches on the lands of the Lakota people. Mattotaupa, an Oglala Lakota man, gambles with Red Fox, a White criminal, in a saloon. When seeing he has gold, Red Fox demands to know its origin. Mattotaupa refuses, and Red Fox murders him. Mattotaupa's son, the young and fierce warrior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform. The DEFA Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was established in order to preserve the films in the DEFA library as well as the film studios, and make them accessible to the public. History DEFA was founded in Spring 1946 in the Soviet Occupied Zone in eastern Germany; it was the first film production company in post-World War II Germany. While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary means of re-educating the German populace as it emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule. Headquartered in Berlin, the company was formally authorized by the Soviet Military Administration to produce films on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Home Among Strangers
''A Friend to Foes, a Foe to Friends'' (; ''Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh'') is a 1974 Soviet Red Western film starring Yuri Bogatyryov and Anatoly Solonitsyn and directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. It is Mikhalkov's directorial debut. Produced mainly in colour, some scenes are black and white.Тайны нашего кино «Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих» (ТВЦ, 2014) English language titles The film's English title has numerous variants, and this in part has hindered success in English-speaking countries, along with particularly bad dubbing when it was first released in those countries. Variants range from a full length translation of the Russian title — ''At home among strangers, a stranger among his own'' or ''A friend among foes, a foe among friends'' to ''At home among the Strangers''. Plot The setting is post-Russian Civil War, during the reconstruction of the young Soviet republic. During the war, Shilov, Sarichev, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sons Of Great Bear
''The Sons of Great Bear'' (; literally, The Sons of the Great She-Bear) is a 1966 East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role of Tokei-ihto. The script was adapted from the eponymous series of novels by author Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, and the music composed by Wilhelm Neef. The picture is a revisionist Western, pioneering the genre of the Ostern, and emphasises the positive portrayal of Native Americans, while presenting the Whites as antagonists. It is one of the most successful pictures produced by the DEFA film studio, known for its series of "Indian films". Plot In 1874, the U.S. government encroaches on the lands of the Lakota people. Mattotaupa, an Oglala Lakota man, gambles with Red Fox, a White criminal, in a saloon. When seeing he has gold, Red Fox demands to know its origin. Mattotaupa refuses, and Red Fox murders him. Mattotaupa's son, the young and fierce wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEFA Indianerfilm
DEFA Indianerfilme ("DEFA Indian films") was a series of adventure and western films (" Red Westerns") produced by the GDR DEFA film studio. The name comes from the obsolete term "Indians" for Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Between 1966 and 1983 DEFA produced 14 films of this type, about the resistance of Native Americans against white invaders. A memorable actor in the series was Yugoslavian (Serbian) actor Gojko Mitic portraying fictional Native Americans ("Indians"), "Winnetou of the East", who played in 12 of these films. The films are searchable in the PROGRESS film database. Films Below are the 14 Indianerfilme and a parody. DEFA division "Roter Kreis" *1966: The Sons of Great Bear, based on the novel The Sons of the Great Bear *1967: Chingachgook, The Great Serpent *1968: Spur des Falken, Trail of the Falcon *1969: Weiße Wölfe, White Wolves *1970: Tödlicher Irrtum, Fatal error *1971: Osceola *1972: Tecumseh *1973: Apachen, Apaches *1974: Ulzana *1975: Blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Americans In German Popular Culture
Since the 18th century, Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans have been a topic of fascination in German culture, inspiring literature, art, film and historical reenactment, as well as influencing German ideas and attitudes towards environmentalism. Hartmut Lutz coined the term Indianthusiasm for this phenomenon.German professor lectures on his country's "Indianthusiasm" by Darlene Chrapko Sweetgrass Writer, Volume: 19 Issue: 12 Year: 2012, Aboriginal Multi-Media Society AMMSA CanadaLutz, Hartmut: "German Indianthusiasm: A Socially Constructed German National(ist) Myth" in: ''Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections'', ed. Colin Gordon Calloway, Gerd Gemnden, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man From The Boulevard Des Capucines
''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' () is a 1987 Red Western comedy film (Mosfilm production) directed by Alla Surikova, with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid. The film had the highest ratings in the Soviet Union in 1987, with 60 million viewers. Plot Mr. John First (Johnny) is a cinematographer traveling to Santa Carolina when he is stopped by a band of robbers, headed by Black Jack. Johnny is the only one who does not pull out a gun and fight during the midst of the action and is thus questioned by Black Jack as to why. He then takes the book which Johnny is so fervently looking through and ends up mistaking it for a Bible, until he notices that it contains several blank pages. Johnny explains that it is a book of World Cinema History. Black Jack quickly loses interest and rides away. When Johnny arrives in Santa Carolina, he comes to the local bar, where a rowdy brawl soon begins. This is an everyday occurrence, as it is how Harry, the owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
