In 1956, the people in charge of the children's television of the DFF intended to delight their young viewers with an Indian play. This was realized when Horst Born dramatized a story from James F. Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" and was staged by Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt. The story led back to the year 1756 and described an event that took place in the north of America, today's Canada. The war between the English and the French had already lasted five years, which was bitterly fought over large areas of this region against the actual inhabitants, the Indians. In the process, the Indians got caught between the fronts of the hostile European nations. The foreign troops tried to play off the individual Indian tribes against each other, and unfortunately this was successful: the once peaceful people of all Indians began to fall apart. There was only one glimmer of hope for the so-called "redskins": the great chief Pontiac. He resisted the disintegration of the Indians as a unit, tried to bundle the forces of the Native Americans in order to drive the aliens out of their land. But in the end, this plan was doomed to failure. To commemorate this just fight of the Indians, the DFF showed the play of the last of the Mohicans, not with the figure of Pontiac, but with reds and whites who selflessly stood up for the rights of the Indians, such as the legendary Pontiac.
Der letzte der Mohikaner – German title
The Last of the Mohicans – English title
A 1956 East German television production [Deutscher
Fernsehfunk (DFF)]
Producer: Heinz Fülfe
Director: Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt
Story: James Fenimore Cooper
Teleplay: Horst Born
Photography: [black & white]
Music: ?
Running time: ?
Cast:
Colonel Munro – Hans Fiebrandt
Cora Evelyn Lazar
Alice – Key West
Major Herward – Joachim Hoyer
Psalm singer – Willy Krause
Falcon Eye – Willi Narloch
Chingachgook - Walter Richter-Reinick
Inkas - Gerhard Rachold
Magua - Herbert Malsbender
Tamenund - Frank Michelis
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