Tecumseh (film)

Tecumseh
Directed by	Hans Kratzert
Written by	Rolf Römer
Starring	Gojko Mitić Annekathrin Bürger Rolf Römer Leon Niemczyk
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	DEFA
Release date	1 July 1972 (1972-07-01)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

Tecumseh is a 1972 East German western film directed by Hans Kratzert and starring Gojko Mitić, Annekathrin Bürger and Rolf Römer. The film depicts the life of the Native American leader Tecumseh (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 Mitić which, in line with the policies of Communist East Germany, attempted to present a more critical, but also more realistic, view of American expansion to the West than was characterized 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]

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Bibliography[]

• Bergfelder, Tim (2005) [2004]. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.
• Ginsberg, Terri; Mensch, Andrea, eds. (2012). A Companion to German Cinema. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-9436-5.

External links[]

• Tecumseh at IMDb

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