Das Wiegenlied vom Totschlag

Originaltitel: Soldier Blue

1970
16
1 Std. 55 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,9/10

6674

IHRE BEWERTUNG

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.

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Nachdem eine Kavalleriepatrouille von den Cheyenne überfallen wurde, müssen die beiden Überlebenden, ein Soldat und eine Frau, die Sicherheit des nächsten Forts erreichen.Nachdem eine Kavalleriepatrouille von den Cheyenne überfallen wurde, müssen die beiden Überlebenden, ein Soldat und eine Frau, die Sicherheit des nächsten Forts erreichen.Nachdem eine Kavalleriepatrouille von den Cheyenne überfallen wurde, müssen die beiden Überlebenden, ein Soldat und eine Frau, die Sicherheit des nächsten Forts erreichen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,9/10

6674

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Indian Woman
(as Aurora Clavell)

Ralph Nelson

Agent Long
(as Alf Elson)

Marco Antonio Arzate

Kiowa Warrior
(Nicht genannt)

Barbara De Hubp

Mrs. Long
(Nicht genannt)

Ron Fletcher

Lt. Mitchell
(Nicht genannt)

Alfredo Tarzan Gutiérrez

Kiowa indian
(Nicht genannt)

Conrad Hool

Lieutenant
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
Original work print of the movie was 135 minutes long. When it was test-screened to an audience, they almost started a riot after watching this version. This was the only time that the full uncut version was shown, and it caused the studio to decide that it was unreleasable unless massive cuts were made to the film's violent scenes. Some of these cut and never included in any official version scenes include shots of Indian women's breasts being sliced off and thrown around; children's limbs graphically severed (real amputees were employed for these shots); a little girl's legs cut off by wagon wheels; a soldier gleefully cutting an Indian's arms off before shooting another Cheyenne in the eye; the fate of Spotted Wolf, who is beheaded and his head is hoisted as a trophy by a soldier before he tosses it to another soldier, who then throws it off camera. Spotted Wolf's head attached to the stirrup of a cavalryman was not cut and is shown in the release print, and there are stills showing his mutilated body lying on the ground without the head and four cavalrymen running around with his severed head in their hands, howling and laughing while blood is spurting from the neck stump.

Patzer
The voice-over at the end of the film describes the events we have just witnessed as taking place in 1864.However,earlier in the movie Honus tells Cresta that his father was killed at the battle of Little Bighorn which occurred in 1876.

Zitate
Col. Iverson: When I see young people today behaving like that I just... I can't help wondering what this goddamn country's coming to.

Alternative Versionen
The movie was originally rated "R" by the MPAA. In 1974 a new version was rated "PG" which removed the most graphically violent parts from the massacre as well as a toned down rape scene, but the scene still contained full frontal nudity of a native woman.

Verbindungen
Featured in JFK II: The Bush Connection (2003)

Soundtracks
Soldier Blue
Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Produced by Jack Nitzsche
Performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie

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I look out and I see a land...

Don't miss the beginning at any cost.Or else you would not hear Buffy Sainte-Marie's eponymous anthemic song (Yes this is my country,young and growing free and flowing from sea to sea...).The version of the song as performed here features a string arrangement not present in the original version (which is to be found on BSM's "she used to wanna be a ballerina",vanguard).This song is as moving today as it was 30 years ago,and when the singer implores "can't you see there's another way to love her?" it gains an universal meaning(not only American natives or Vietnamese as it was mooted at the time for the movie)

The movie is famous for the slaughter which ends it.Terribly realistic ,it remains impressive today and may repel some viewers.There's a very strong use of the score during these scenes.But most of the movie deals with the initiatory journey of a young naive soldier,"educated " by a woman who was captured by the Indians and had to live with them for a while.Candice Bergen's performance came aside as a shock at the time because she used to play frail young maids (Robert Wise's "the sand pebbles";Claude Lelouch's "vivre pour vivre" ) before.But there's a problem:her character is not really believable;just compare her with the heroines with a similar fate in Ford's movies :"the searchers" ,1956;"two rode together",1961..They are far from Crista 's outspoken and politically aware character.Actually ,it seems that this woman is a contemporary woman,with Joan Baez's, Buffy Sainte-Marie's or Jane Fonda's mind (in the late sixties)..

For all that,"soldier blue " is worth watching and superbly uses wide screen :the landscapes match Sainte-Marie's song.Primarily an intimate movie,for most of the time there are only two people on the screen.Hence the contrast with the violent finale.