Tecumseh (film)

Tecumseh is a 1972 East German western film directed by Hans Kratzert and starring Gojko Mitic, Annekathrin Bürger and Rolf Römer. The film depicts the life of the Native American leader Tecumsah (1768-1813), including his role in Tecumseh's War and his later death in the War of 1812 while fighting with the British against the United States.

The film is a red western made by DEFA, the state-owned East German studio.^[1] It is part of a popular string of films starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitic which, in line with the policies of Communist East Germany, attempted to present a different and more critical view of American expansion to the West than they felt was represented by Hollywood. The film, along with others, was also made partly in response to the successful series of Karl May films made in West Germany.^[2]

Partial cast

• Gojko Mitic as Tecumseh
• Annekathrin Bürger as Eileen
• Rolf Römer as Simon McKew
• Leon Niemczyk as McKew
• Mieczyslaw Kalenik as General Brook
• Milan Beli as Raffael
• Wolfgang Greese as Governor William Harrison
• Gerry Wolff as Newman
• Rolf Ripperger as Barry
• Helmut Schreiber as Colonel Procter
• Herbert Köfer as Mac
• Rudolf Ulrich as O'Brian
• Fritz Links as Aldington
• Minja Vojvodic as Black Eagle
• Maciej Rayzacher as Wanata
• Mincho Nikolov as Red Hawk
• Oleg Vidov as Elliot
• Werner Hahn as Logan
• Hans-Peter Pieper as Crane
• Joe Schorn as Round Head
• Gerd Funk as Parker
• Wilfried Pucher as Ellis
• Dirk Jungnickel as Weatherford

References

1. ↑ Ginsberg & Mensch p.38
2. ↑ Bergfelder p.203

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berhahn Books, 2005.
• Ginsberg, Terri & Mensch, Andrea (ed.) A Companion to German Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

External links

• Tecumseh at the Internet Movie Database