Ostern

The Ostern ("Eastern"; ; or ) is a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films. The word Ostern is a portmanteau derived from the German word Ost, meaning "East", and the English word western. Two subgenres may be distinguished (although the terms may be used interchangeably): * Red Westerns, set in America's "Wild West" but involving radically different themes and interpretations from US Westerns. These Westerns were mostly produced in the Eastern Bloc, especially in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Examples of Red Westerns include Lemonade Joe or the Horse Opera (Czechoslovakia, 1964), The Sons of Great Bear (East Germany, 1966), The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Romania, 1981), and A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (USSR, 1987). * Easterns (Osterns) were set domestically on the steppes and Central Asian regions of the USSR, typically during the Russian Revolution or the following Civil War. Easterns were presented in a style heavily influenced by American Western films. Examples of this genre include The Elusive Avengers (1966) and its sequels, White Sun of the Desert (1970), Dauria (1971), At Home Among Strangers (1974) and The Bodyguard (1979).

The Ostern ("Eastern"; ; or ) is a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films. The word Ostern is a portmanteau derived from the German word Ost, meaning "East", and the English word western. Two subgenres may be distinguished (although the terms may be used interchangeably): Red Westerns, set in America's "Wild West" but involving radically different themes and interpretations from US Westerns. These Westerns were mostly produced in the Eastern Bloc, especially in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Examples of Red Westerns include Lemonade Joe or the Horse Opera (Czechoslovakia, 1964), The Sons of Great Bear (East Germany, 1966), The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Romania, 1981), and A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (USSR, 1987). Easterns (Osterns) were set domestically on the steppes and Central Asian regions of the USSR, typically during the Russian Revolution or the following Civil War. Easterns were presented in a style heavily influenced by American Western films. Examples of this genre include The Elusive Avengers (1966) and its sequels, White Sun of the Desert (1970), Dauria (1971), At Home Among Strangers (1974) and The Bodyguard (1979). ==Other monikers in the genre== == Notable Red Westerns and Osterns== 1924: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, a silent Soviet comedy film. An American millionaire hires a cowboy for his travel across the Soviet Union, but Soviet crooks fool them. Plenty of chases and shootings. Critics consider it the beginning of a "golden age" of Soviet cinema. 1925: Red Devils, Soviet; 1937: The Thirteen, Soviet; allegedly shot on an order of Joseph Stalin, who was a fan of Westerns 1950: Brave People, Soviet; Norbert Franz hesitatingly writes that it had "little to do more with Westerns than the horses used". 1957: Miles of Fire, Soviet 1962: Treasure of Silver Lake, West Germany, co-production with Yugoslavia; marks the beginning of the era of West German Westerns 1964: Lemonade Joe, Czechoslovakia 1966, The Sons of Great Bear, East Germany 1966: The Elusive Avengers, a remake of Red Devils 1967: Chingachgook, die große Schlange, East Germany 1968: Spur des Falken, East Germany 1968: Weiße Wölfe, East Germany 1970: White Sun of the Desert, Soviet; "a slightly ironic Eastern", a box office hit with over 34 million viewers that year 1970: , Tajik SSR 1970: :ru:Конец атамана, Kazakh SSR; some classify it as Eastern, but on shaky grounds. It had three sequels with the same lead character, chekist Chadyarov 1971: Dauria (two parts) 1972: The Seventh Bullet, Uzbek SSR 1973: The Headless Horseman, Soviet-Cuban Red Western 1974: At Home among Strangers 1976 (translated as "The Wind Blows Under Your Feet" or "The Wind is Whistling under Their Feet"), "Goulash Western" of György Szomjas 1979 , "Goulash Western" of György Szomjas 1979: The Bodyguard, Tajik SSR 1981: The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Romania) 1981: comedy Western (tagged for ages 10 and up); "a failed attempt of a parody of Westerns for children" 1987: A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (USSR, 1987) 1993: The Wild East, Kazakhstan; postapocalyptic Eastern 1995: Wolf Blood See also: :ru:Категория:Истерны ==See also== DEFA (film studio) Gojko Mitić, German-Serbian actor, best known for his roles of Native Americans in numerous DEFA Indianerfilme. Native American hobbyism in Germany, a hobby consisting of Germans impersonating American Indian culture. Vsevolod Ivanov, Soviet writer who was a formative influence on the Ostern. ==References==

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