Bluehawk (TV)

Blauvogel - German title

Bluehawk - English title

A 1994 German, Canadian TV co-production [Telefilm Saar GmbH (Berlin)]

Producers: Joachim Schöneberger, Norbert Walter

Director: Jeff Authors (Jeffrey Authors)

Story: Anna Jürgen (Anna Muller-Tamnewitz)         

Screenplay: Christos Yiannopoulos, James E. Motluk

Cinematography: Michael Faust, Konrad Kotowsky [color]

Music: Manfred Schoof

Running time: 23 minutes x 13 episodes

Cast:

Michael Ruster/Bluehawk at 16 - Shawn Mathieson

Michael Ruster/Bluehawk at12 - John White

Malia at 16 - Tamara Podemski

Malia at 12 - Sarah Podemski

Little Bear - Denis Lacroix

Oshkigan - Carol Greyeyes

Uncle Silas Rustic - Jochen Senf

Silver Fox at 17 - Leroy Peltier

Silver Fox at 13 - Cheyenne Kitchikake

Greyhorn - Michael Lawrenchuk (Charles Lawrenchuk)

Tobias Ruster - John Wilman

Tobias Ruster at 16 - Alexander Jay

Henry Ruster at 15 - Patrick Gillen

Henry Ruster at 11 - David Roemmele

Ellis - Stephen Russell

Captain Savard - Don Francks

Priest - Colin Fox

This was a single season German, Canadian TV series. The story had already been filmed by DEFA under the same title in 1979.

This 13-part television series takes place in 1759 in the present territory of Canada.  During an attack on a village Michael, the ten year old son of a settler, is kidnapped by Indians.  He gets to know the lives of these strangers to him, their culture, their myths and their close relationship to nature.  He will, over time, not without internal and external conflicts, even becoming like the Indians.  However, the boy fluctuates long between the white and the Indian world.  In many adventures he gets caught in the crossfire of those who fight for the "new" country.  When, after a long time he has the opportunity to return to the white world, he opts for the Indian way of life as the more humane life for him.

YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8boO_tUn0WY