Western movie Sioux indian in Saxony

Documentary filmmaker Bettina Renner
A Sioux in Saxony
  What makes the grave of a chief of the Oglala in a cemetery in Dresden? The answer to this question led to a documentary filmmaker Bettina hit wide on a journey.

Transfigured Karlmaytum Edward Two Two and a tribal brother play for Hagenbeck Indians
No, Karl May has to do with this story, for once, nothing, although it has its origins 100 years ago. But this is about a "real" Indians: Sioux chief Edward Two Two lived from 1851 to 1914, or so it says on his grave stone in the middle of the new Catholic cemetery in Dresden and below like in the Lakota language the inscription "To Paradise Angels lead you. " It is a plain sandstone rimmed with green and overgrown grave in which - put a small American flag - with special permission of the cemetery.

That the director Bettina Renner was attentive, as she turned in 2007 to the cemetery a movie. The thirty-seven, in Dresden, Ohio and American studies, and once wrote her thesis on the role image of Indians in Indian films, was electrified. The question of why an Indian chief was far removed from the home and tradition of his people laid to rest, gave more answers ready, as she first thought.

The search took five years of files and archives up to America, to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where descendants of Edward Two Twos live. They knew that it was the wish of her famous ancestor, to be buried in Dresden, but just talk about times they would not. "They said, 'It is our history, and we decide who we tell them,'" says Bettina Renner, who was only stunned, but now understands this. "I realized this only as a matter of course, we serve our authors, often in the stories of others."

Time of the early break
By cooling the Two Twos then heated descendants but for the idea. A good six weeks living Bettina and her team finally hit with a trailer in the reserve, and they learned not only Two Two's history, but also how much the lives of Indians in Pine Ridge is still the equal of the white settlers their ancestors, the Native Americans, forcing some 100 years ago: In a state-dependent existence, and a constant struggle for land.

Far from home: The grave of "Chief" Edward Two Two
Edward Two Two was born in the time of the beginning of radical change in the prairie. He was one of the Oglala, a tribe of the Lakota Sioux, who was in the far reaches of the Midwest home. The men, warriors, protected, and fed their people that lived in tepees and not settled by buffaloes. The train of white settlers to the west and the first gold discoveries, but limited the tribal lands of the Indians so much that they fought, defeated and were persecuted. This period also characterized Two Two, whose family name was originally Nupalla what in the Lakota language means "One of two" means, and the whites in the registry, as they forced the Indians onto reservations, profane transferred into English.

Two Two, which his ancestors had taught the pride as a warrior and supporter tried to take his prescribed the sedentary life, he became a soldier and served in the reserve police, but fortunately it did not. Once a week, on "Ration Day" let the government spend food, the Indians now had to live in huts instead of tents and speak English. Lakota, their language was forbidden. The consequences of the radical and rapid change and re-education drowned many Sioux in alcohol, even today, despite or perhaps because of the strict ban by the Indian self-government is still one of the main problems on the reservation. If you are caught inebriated, has for eight hours in detention in the past year about the met about half of the nearly 30,000 residents.

CBS makes the "Rifleman" shoot again

Another project in the resurrection of the Western genre: CBS produced
a remake of the series "The Rifleman" who already was successful
decades ago.
The U.S. television has to be rediscovered in the Western. Also, CBS
is now developing a remake of "The Rifleman" a Western drama that has
been successful in the 1950s and 60s. That the long-term fallow genre
back in vogue, is not only shows the Oscar-nominated film "True Grit"
from the year 2010, who hit well at the box office, but also the TV
series "Hell on Wheels" to the sender AMC this week brought the
second-best series ever start.
In "The Rifleman" is about the Civil War hero Lucas McCain, a widower
who lives with his son on his own ranch in New Mexico. There he makes
friends with the local sheriff and his fast shooting Winchester became
the unofficial guardian of the city.

Cinema-offs - The films of 10 November 2011

Minimalist Western about a trek in the desert of Oregon

In Western "Meek's Cutoff" the independent American director Kelly
Reichardt reinvents the genre
It was a surprise when, rumored U.S. indie icon Kelly Reichardt will
turn next one Western. Finally, the filmmaker in recent years has
become acquainted with its consistent Cinema of minimalism. Her films
"Wendy and Lucy" and "Old Boy" were not a blockbuster, but critics and
fans responded enthusiastically. And now, a Western?
Well yes, there are also the Western poetic sub-genre of films of the
slowness and silence, which is traded higher among connoisseurs. This
is exactly where Reichardt, when she tells an episode from the Oregon
Trail in 1845. Countless Westerns have told their stories along a
trek, Reichardt says the trek proves that style and will.
"Meek's Cutoff" is a minimalist, meditative western that Antonioni
with Malick, Monte Hellman, with Werner Herzog crosses. A film that is
filled with the screech of the wagons, with which torment the three
families by high-desert plateau of Oregon. One trapper Stephen Meek
(Bruce Greenwood) has

The fine art of poker

Dusseldorf (RP). That poker is a game belongs to the category of
popular errors. The game requires a combination of patience and skill,
mathematics and psychology. With the World Cup victory of the German
Pius Heinz (22), the card game could be even more popular in this
country.
The Hollywood-ready story of the 22-year-old German Heinz Pius, who
went to Las Vegas poker champion will be fascinated, not just the
Poker Nation USA. Rise because the typical American dream of rags to
riches, has the boy with the biblical name (which is irritating to
word games such as poker Pope Pius) can be true the world over. With $
10,000 entry fee, the student of economic psychology resident in
Vienna on the multi-millionaire, gets in the field of 6865 players to
win bonus of $ 8.7 million (6.3 million €). And provides, as experts
predict, and the Casino Wiesbaden reported yesterday on the Internet,
for a run on the poker tables.

The Metropolis is the Wild West

The Cinefest displays up to 20 November "Europe's prairies and
canyons." Too many ideas actors and directors are expected.
The Western is a broad field: Lucky Luke (Jean Dujardin, second from
left) and Calamity Jane (Sylvie Testud, second from right) received an
escort. "Lucky Luke" runs on Sunday, 20.11.
Metropolis. When a film is actually a Western? When John Wayne rode
through Monument Valley? Or, men in plaid shirts beat in a bar? Or the
light with the hats are the good guys? With the exception of the first
aspect of the criteria available in the coming days on the bench. In
Metropolis, the original American genre until 20 November
zurückregionalisiert pleasurable. There the Cinefest runs in this
year's theme: "Europe's prairies and canyons between Western Siberia
and the Atlantic.".

"Winnetou" and the publican

My World Cinema
"Winnetou" and the publican
Created 07:11:11, 11:58
Karl May is actually Pierre Brice as a child encounters. The Western
movies he may still not. Today, Karl May (45) for 15 years, a mattress
store in Neuehrenfeld, where he grew up.
Pierre Brice as a proud Apache chief Winnetou.
What was your first movie?
Karl May: It was "The robber Hotzenplotz" with Gerd Frobe in the lead
role. 1974 must have been. I remember that I read of the huge nose,
Gerd Frobe had at that time in the movie, was impressed. Even the big
cinema hall in the "Helios-air theater" at the Venloerstraße I loved
it. Only the way of Neuehrenfeld, where we lived, to the cinema - the
seemed endless. Later, I'm often there and then but I prefer viewed
Bruce Lee movies.