Story
The East coast of the USA, 1740: English troops are trying to snatch the colonies held by the French and involve the local Indians in the conflict. When the daughter of a chief is kidnapped by another tribe, Chingachgook (Gojko Mitić) and his friend Wildtöter [Deerslayer] set out on a dangerous mission to free her. Above all, he wants to convince his fellow Indians of one thing: that the war of the whites is not their war. The film is the equivalent to the popular West German series of Karl May films and is based on a story from the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, which enjoyed huge popularity in the 1950s in the GDR. The film versions starring Gojko Mitić were also extremely successful.
Director
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Chingachgook, die große Schlange
Fiction Feature
German
DDR Deluxe | FF2014
1967
91 min
OV
Richard Groschopp
Wolfgang Ebeling, Richard Groschopp (frei nach dem Buch
Gojko Mitic, Rolf Römer, Lilo Grahn, Helmut Schreiber, Jürgen Frohriep
Otto Hanisch
Helga Krause
Wilhelm Neef
Paul Lehmann
13703,15864,14692,13867,14310,18088,20562,18252,19013
Deutsche Kinemathek
Deutsche Kinemathek, DEFA Film Library (USA)
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Deutsche Kinemathek, Konstanze Schiller