The Sons of Great Bear (Limited Edition, Region B) w/SLIP Nagisa Oshima Henry Hull

Henry Hull

Introduction to the film by Bogdanovich

1 Surround Mix

Commentary w/ Cast & Crew

98 minutes

The Sons of Great Bear (Limited Edition, Region B) w/SLIP Nagisa Oshima Henry HullBy the mid 1960s, Westerns had become extremely popular in West Germany due to a series of films adapted from the novels of Karl May. In response, DEFA the state operated studio of East Germany or the GDR made its own film set in the Old West. But The Sons of Great Bear wasnt just designed to compete with West German genre films it was also intended as a pointed corrective to the American frontier myth, pitting its Native American protagonists against