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1975 film

Blood Brothers

Directed by	Werner W. Wallroth
Written by	Wolfgang Ebeling Dean Reed
Starring	Dean Reed Gojko Mitic Gisela Freudenberg
Cinematography	Hans Heinrich
Edited by	Helga Emmrich
Music by	Karl-Ernst Sasse
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	DEFA
Release date	26 June 1975 (1975-06-26)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

Blood Brothers (German: Blutsbrüder) is a 1975 East German Western film directed by Werner W. Wallroth and starring Dean Reed, Gojko Mitic, and Gisela Freudenberg.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Röske and Marlene Willmann. It was made by the state-controlled DEFA company.

Cast

Dean Reed as Harmonika
Gojko Mitic as Harter Felsen
Gisela Freudenberg as Rehkitz
Jörg Panknin as Joe
Cornel Ispas as Big Fred
Iurie Darie as Bill Simmons
Sina Fiedler-Engel as Servierin
Alexandru Manea as Leutnant
Eugenia Bosânceanu as Frau von Simmons
Toma Dimitriu as Grauer Elch
Pedro Hebenstreit as 2.Gast
Fred Ludwig as 1.Gast
Joachim Schönitz as Barkeeper
Elena Sereda as Dicke Frau

Reception

In a 2007 article describing a Goethe-Institut event highlighting various Dean Reed films, Washington City Paper described the film as "pretty lousy" but recommended it to fans of "preening pretty boys, Elvis knockoffs, or cowboy-and-Indian flicks where everyone speaks German."

References

Tóth p. 223
Jenkins, Mark (29 November 2007). "'The Red Elvis: Dean Reed in Film'". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 24 December 2024.

Bibliography

Tóth, György Ferenc (2016). From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty Between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War. Albany: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-6123-6.

External links

Blood Brothers at IMDb

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