EASTERN TRAILS: THE WESTERN AT DEFA (Masters of Cinema
EASTERN TRAILS: THE WESTERN AT DEFA (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Two-disc Blu-ray 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 Germany’s 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 Mitić, whose appearances in a long line of action-packed Westerns for DEFAmade him one of the most famous faces in Europe. Mitić stars in all four of the films...