Blauvogel
BlueBird
Son of a family of British migrants, nine-year-old George is abducted by Iroquois Indians with whom he subsequently grows up. Henceforth known as Bluebird, he serves as a point of reference for viewers; from his vantage point they are acquainted with the realistically portrayed Native American culture, are emotionally roped in to his inner conflict vis-à-vis two different ways of life and thus ultimately have the chance to reappraise the way they see the world. With BLUEBIRD one of the DEFA studio's most creative and idiosyncratic directors created a timeless and most remarkable Native American film.
35 mm | Farbe / colour
Ulrich Weiß
Otto Hanisch
Rosemarie Linde,Christian Müller
Hans Poppe
Peter Rabenalt
Robin Jäger, Gabriel Oseciuc, Jutta Hoffmann, Kurt Böwe, Jan Spitzer, Andrew Ileana Mavrodineanu, Gheorghe Patru, Petrut Traian, Gheorghe Haliu u.a.
Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Dorothée Basel
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
Ulrich Weiß - – born 1942 in Wernigerode. Started out working for the DEFA studio on short films within the Effekt working group, before switching to feature film at the DEFA studio in 1982. The film DEIN UNBEKANNTER BRUDER (YOUR UNKNOWN BROTHER) saw Weiß invited to the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, the film however was withdrawn by the Eastern German regime.
PARAGRAF 14 (1968, short, doc, Cottbus 2010)
TAMBARI (1977)
DEIN UNBEKANNTER BRUDER (1982)
OLLE HENRY (1983)
FOLLOW ME (1988)
MIRACULI (1992)
ABSTECHER (1992, doc, Cottbus 2011)
STERNBURG – BIERKAMPF IM OSTEN (1993, doc)
