Blood Brothers (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."

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