Imitacja, rekonstrukcja, propaganda. Zimnowojenne wędrówki europejskiego westernu
Imitation, Reconstruction, Propaganda. Cold War Wanderings of the European Western

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with West and East German films about the American Wild West made in the period of 1962-1983. The films from both sides of the Berlin Wall, the majority of which was co-produced with Yugoslavia, are discussed in a broader perspective of the Cold War geopolitical situation, as well as in the context of the changes taking place in American and European western at the time. The West German adaptations of Charles May’s novels are the apotheosis of the conservative and pro-American ideology of the classical western, while the polemical East German Indianerfilme refer to the aesthetics and in some respects to the revisionist world views of American anti-western and Italian spaghetti-western. The context of Yugoslav cinematography, and especially characteristic for the propaganda apparatus tendency to combine Hollywood patterns with socialist ideology, is also an important theme.

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