Signals: Red Westerns
Overview of films
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By the Law
Kuleshov’s adaptation of a Jack London novel follows gold-diggers on the banks of the Yukon in Alaska. This silent film has been restored by the Au
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The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Part two in the popular Romanian Red Western ‘Transylvanian trilogy’. Made during a productive 1970s that were marked by a new freedom
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White Sun of the Desert
This cult film from Russia’s Era of Stagnation was another smash hit in the Soviet Union and is still popular today. It is the story of a red soldi
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Die Söhne der Großen Bärin
The first in a successful series of Red Westerns (also known as ‘Sauerkraut’ Westerns) made in the former GDR. A truly international co
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The Law and the Fist
This Polish take on the Red Western occurs after World War II, in the territories previously inhabited by Germans. Until now it is remembered for a
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No One Wanted to Die
A Red Western from Lithuania voted as the best film of 1966 by readers of the Soviet Screen film magazine. Intended to celebrate the 20th anniversa
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The Elusive Avengers
Enormously successful Soviet response to the classic American Western The Magnificient Seven (1960), a film that was such a box office hit in Russi
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Chingachgook, die große Schlange
The second successful and unforgettable GDR Red Western, in which former Serbian athlete Gojko Mitic plays an Indian and where the Yugoslav mountai
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
This film marks the birth of the Red Western. Made by Lev Kuleshov, teacher of the Moscow film school and pioneer of Soviet montage, the actors inc
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Meeting at the Old Mosque
This Central Asian Red Western is a superb blend of classic cowboy traits and Soviet cinema of the twenties. Taking place in a small Tajik town, a
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The Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul
Based on the novella The Smugglers of the Tian Shan, this popular Kyrgyz film takes place in the 1920s and uses the basic formula of the Red Wester
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The Seventh Bullet
One of the many Red Westerns directly inspired – even in the title – by the hugely popular American classic The Magnificent Seven (1960