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Spur des Falken

Director: Gottfried Kolditz, 113 Min., Color, Feature Film
Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)
1968

Film/Video Format
35 mm
Length in m
3290
English Title
Falcon's Trail
Premiere Date
Release Date (for Cinema)
Film poster for "Spur des Falken"

(Dir.: Gottfried Kolditz, 1968) Graphic Design: Thomas Schleusing

Short Summary (English)

In the second half of the 19th century, gold was discovered in the Black Hills. However; this area had been allocated to the Dakota Indians as a winter reservation by contract. Nevertheless, gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flocked to the region. Among them was the land speculator Bludgeon, who attempted to expel the Indians using brutal methods - such as having entire herds of buffalo slaughtered. The Indians took their revenge by attacking a train of the Union Pacific. While Chief Farsighted Falcon and his men are out hunting, Bludgeon and his gang perpetrate a bloody massacre in the Indian village. The Dakota warriors fight for their rights and the gold digger town is turned into a scene of battle. Only the advancing armed forces manage to prevent a defeat of the Whites. In single combat Farsighted Falcon conquers his enemy Bludgeon. He assembles the members of his tribe and brings them to safety.

 

Source: Progress Film-Verleih

Film still for "Spur des Falken"

(Dir.: Gottfried Kolditz, 1968) Photography: Waltraut Pathenheimer

Film still for "Spur des Falken"

(Dir.: Gottfried Kolditz, 1968) Photography: Waltraut Pathenheimer

Film Crew

Director
  • Gottfried Kolditz
Script
  • Günter Karl
Camera
  • Otto Hanisch
Film Editing
  • Helga Krause
Cast
  • Gojko Mitić (Falke)
  • Hannjo Hasse (Bludgeon)
  • Barbara Brylska (Catherine)
  • Lali Meszchi (Blauhaar)
  • Rolf Hoppe (Bashan)
  • Hartmut Beer (Fletcher)
  • Helmut Schreiber (Sam Blake)
  • Fred Delmare (Peter Hille)
  • Milan Jablonský (Bad Face)
  • Holger Mahlich (Pat)
  • Fred Ludwig (Emmerson)
  • Horst Kube (Chat)
  • Giorgi Tadischwili (Captain Ronald)
  • Rodam Tschelidse (Luchsauge)
  • Laurenti Koschadse (Grauer Bär)
  • Koba Kobulow (Listiger Fuchs)
  • Albert Giorgadse (Springendes Wasser)
  • Fritz Mohr (Sergeant McDryden)
  • Dietmar Richter-Reinick (Leutnant Forsythe)
  • Paul Berndt (Wirt Bill Meyers)
  • Otar Leontjewitsch Koberidse (Tasunka-whitko)
  • Duchana Zerodse (Mutter von Blauhaar)
  • Wilfried Roil (Krähe)
  • Klaus-Jürgen Kramer (Flinker Hirsch)
  • Josef (auch: Sepp) Klose (Dick)
  • Werner Wieland (Galsworth)
  • Fritz Marquardt (Bludgeon)
  • Gert Hänsch (Bludgeon)
  • Berko Acker (Bludgeon)
  • Michael Gwisdek (Bludgeon)
  • Detlef Heinze (Bludgeon)
  • Wilfried Zander (Bludgeon)
  • Winfried Glatzeder (Bludgeon)
  • Heinz Laggies (Siedler)
  • Harald Moszdorf (Siedler)
  • Roland Gandt (Siedler)
  • Manfred Richter (Regulärer)
  • Axel Dietrich (Regulärer)
  • Gerd Staiger (Wachtposten)
  • Dagmar Delmare (Kitty)
  • Martin Piontek (Siedler)
Assistant Director
  • Eleonore Dressel
  • Eva Seemann
Assistant Camera
  • Günter Heimann
  • Waltraut Pathenheimer
Production Design
  • Paul Lehmann
Script Editing
  • Hans-Joachim Wallstein
Music
  • Karl-Ernst Sasse
  • Wolfgang Meyer
Sound
  • Bernd Gerwien
Costume Design
  • Günter Schmidt
Make-Up
  • Kurt Tauchmann
  • Christa (auch: Christel) Grewald
Production Management
  • Dorothea Hildebrandt
Unit Production Management
  • Gerrit List
  • Günter Berger
Design
  • Inka Unverzagt (Choreografie)
DEFA Photography
  • Waltraut Pathenheimer
Dubbing (Dubbing Actor)
  • Karl Sturm (Falke)
  • Annekathrin Bürger (Catherine)
  • Lothar Schellhorn (Bad Face)
  • Jörg Knochée (auch: Knoche) (Luchsauge)
  • Robert Trösch (Grauer Bär)
  • Klaus Bergatt (Springendes Wasser)
  • Ruth Kommerell (Mutter von Blauhaar)

Short Summary (German)

In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wird in den Black Hills Gold gefunden. Goldgräber, Abenteurer und Geschäftemacher strömen in das den Dakota-Indianern vertraglich zugesicherte Land. Unter ihnen der Bodenspekulant Bludgeon, der die Indianer mit brutalen Mitteln, unter anderem lässt er ganze Büffelherden abschlachten, zu vertreiben sucht. Während Häuptling Weitspähender Falke mit seinen Männern versucht, Waffen zu beschaffen, tötet Bludgeon mit seiner Bande die im Dorf zurückgebliebenen Indianer. Die Dakota-Krieger kämpfen um ihr Recht, und die Goldgräberstadt wird zum Schauplatz einer Schlacht, bei der nur das anrückende Militär die Niederlage der Weißen verhindern kann. Bludgeon wird im Zweikampf vom Häuptling getötet.

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

Short Summary (Other Languages)

Nella seconda metà del XIX secolo, nell'area delle Black Hills, viene trovato dell'oro. Cercatori, avventurieri e commercianti invadono il territorio promesso agli indiani Lakota. Bludgeon, speculatore fondiario, cerca con mezzi anche illeciti e brutali, di cacciare gli indigeni. Le sue mire si scontrano con quelle del capo tribù "Falco lungimirante". La miniera d'oro diventa il teatro di una sanguinosa battaglia, in cui Bludgeon viene ucciso dal capo tribù. (Italienisch)

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