Eastern Trails The Western at DEFA (Limited Edition, Region B)

A close relation to the Spaghetti Western,Indianerfilme(later called Red Westerns due to their politics)were some of the most popular genre movies produced by East Germanys state-operated film studio, DEFA. Focusing on the struggles of indigenous tribes against European settlers, they disrupted the frontier myths central to the American Western and made a bonafide superstar of Gojko Miti, whose appearances in a long line of action-packed Westerns for DEFAmade him one of the most famous faces in Europe. Miti stars in all four of the films presented here:Chingachgook the Great Serpent,Fatal Error,ApachesandBlood Brothers.

Based on James Fenimore CoopersThe Deerslayer,Chingachgook the Great Serpentsees the eponymou