Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

The first serious role or the Magnificent Goiko Mitic: part one

Gojko Mitic in Chingachgook, die grosse Schlange (1967)

Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, André Hunebelle, and Jean Marais in Fantomas (1964)

Chow Yun-Fat, Alex Man, and Cecilia Yip in Hong Kong 1941 (1984)

Louis de Funès and Jean Marais in Fantomas Unleashed (1965)

Lex Barker and Pierre Brice in Apache Gold (1963)

Gojko Mitic in Trail of the Falcon (1968)

Gojko Mitic in The Sons of Great Bear (1966)

Vladimir Kononov in The Sons of Great Bear (1966)

Gojko Mitic

Jirí Vrstála

Rolf Römer

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich

Whites expel Dakotas from Black Hills after finding gold, defying treaty. Chief&apos;s son Tokei-ihto rejects barren reservation after his father&apos;s murder. Out of prison, he leads tribe&apos;s flight to Canada, confronting murderer Red Fox.

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No Insult to Winnetou&apos;s Fans

Let&apos;s try to write this review in style. I do not argue whether &quot;Sons of Great Bear&quot; (1966) by DEFA is great Movie or not. It&apos;s first in row from Gojko Mitic&apos;s franchise in Indian Films based mostly on writings by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. You can check in Wikipedia who that woman is. Despite some inconsistencies, she was true German from a beaten generation after the fall of Third Reich in Germany. I wouldn&apos;t buy talks that she was Communist because such was reality in those Cold War times. If you don&apos;t put your signature under collaborative statement you wouldn&apos;t be allowed to travel abroad. Thus you remain peasant and ignorant, period. I myself lived through those times and never was Communist.

Second thing about the Movie. Since I doubt whether Americans or other English speaking people have watched Gojko Mitic&apos;s films and I will reiterate again. Very successful spaghetti western with typical German stamina. The hero is Winnetou type undefeatable macho, imaging the noble but dyeing Indian heathen. In the final scene in battle of honor Tokei-Ihto kills his enemy Red Fox (the white, Fred Clark) then liquidates about 20 adversaries with single pistol and escapes. This is typical Karl May scenario and Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich was his staunch student. The chief Tokei-Ihto or &quot;Stone Horn&quot; is imaginary taken from Indian painting by George Catlin. But other Sioux chiefs like Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse) and Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull) are real personages. They were massacred in Nebraska during Wounded Knee Incident (1890). Sioux tribe was put in Black Hill reservation and a branch D(L)akota lead by Tokei-Ihto fled to Canada (unreliable sources).

Now let&apos;s go to the book trilogy by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. I wouldn&apos;t even imagine say that this was unworthy effort. She studied history and anthropology for 20 years plus before &quot;Die Sohne der Grossen Barin&quot; appeared in 1951. Courtesy to success of the book she wrote two prequels - &quot;Harka, der Sohn des Hauptlings&quot; (1962) and &quot;Top und Harry&quot; (1963) which treat earlier periods of life for Harka / Tokei-Ihto. But &quot;Sons of Great Bear&quot; is finale and could be read alone. In such order they appeared in Bulgarian, a bulk of 1500 pp. and favorite novels for youths. I am not aware whether this great trilogy, rival to Winnetou adventures, is published in English. Probably not, which is a loss.

See, folks, the Indians from Winnetou and Tokei-Ihto series bear German hearts and if you don&apos;t understand the undying German spirit you are in great trouble. I talk this to Nationalists all around the world now-a-day. Don&apos;t throw Globalization in the garbage bin. Otherwise, you risk standing in position like Jack Nicholson yelling - &quot;You can&apos;t handle the truth&quot; - in Few Good Men. See You ...

Let's try to write this review in style. I do not argue whether "Sons of Great Bear" (1966) by DEFA is great Movie or not. It's first in row from Gojko Mitic's franchise in Indian Films based mostly on writings by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. You can check in Wikipedia who that woman is. Despite some inconsistencies, she was true German from a beaten generation after the fall of Third Reich in Germany. I wouldn't buy talks that she was Communist because such was reality in those Cold War times. If you don't put your signature under collaborative statement you wouldn't be allowed to travel abroad. Thus you remain peasant and ignorant, period. I myself lived through those times and never was Communist.

Second thing about the Movie. Since I doubt whether Americans or other English speaking people have watched Gojko Mitic's films and I will reiterate again. Very successful spaghetti western with typical German stamina. The hero is Winnetou type undefeatable macho, imaging the noble but dyeing Indian heathen. In the final scene in battle of honor Tokei-Ihto kills his enemy Red Fox (the white, Fred Clark) then liquidates about 20 adversaries with single pistol and escapes. This is typical Karl May scenario and Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich was his staunch student. The chief Tokei-Ihto or "Stone Horn" is imaginary taken from Indian painting by George Catlin. But other Sioux chiefs like Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse) and Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull) are real personages. They were massacred in Nebraska during Wounded Knee Incident (1890). Sioux tribe was put in Black Hill reservation and a branch D(L)akota lead by Tokei-Ihto fled to Canada (unreliable sources).

Now let's go to the book trilogy by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. I wouldn't even imagine say that this was unworthy effort. She studied history and anthropology for 20 years plus before "Die Sohne der Grossen Barin" appeared in 1951. Courtesy to success of the book she wrote two prequels - "Harka, der Sohn des Hauptlings" (1962) and "Top und Harry" (1963) which treat earlier periods of life for Harka / Tokei-Ihto. But "Sons of Great Bear" is finale and could be read alone. In such order they appeared in Bulgarian, a bulk of 1500 pp. and favorite novels for youths. I am not aware whether this great trilogy, rival to Winnetou adventures, is published in English. Probably not, which is a loss.

See, folks, the Indians from Winnetou and Tokei-Ihto series bear German hearts and if you don't understand the undying German spirit you are in great trouble. I talk this to Nationalists all around the world now-a-day. Don't throw Globalization in the garbage bin. Otherwise, you risk standing in position like Jack Nicholson yelling - "You can't handle the truth" - in Few Good Men. See You ...

Whites expel Dakotas from Black Hills after finding gold, defying treaty. Chief's son Tokei-ihto rejects barren reservation after his father's murder. Out of prison, he leads tribe's flight to Canada, confronting murderer Red Fox.

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