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Ulzana (1974)

Ulzana (1974)

Adventure Western
Release Date: 1974, May 16
Directors: Gottfried Kolditz
Countries: Romania, Soviet Union, East Germany
Production: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Filmstudio București, Filmstudio București
Cast: Gojko Mitić, Rolf Hoppe, Renate Blume, Amza Pellea, Colea Răutu, Fred Delmare, Werner Dissel, Paul Berndt, Fritz Mohr, Klaus Gehrke, Alfred Struwe, Hannjo Hasse

Overview:

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.

Keywords:

native american apache nation