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Partisans on Ponies

By: Editors

One German’s idiosyncratic obsession with the American frontier led to an unlikely West German–Yugoslav cinematic partnership that fed the European appetite for cowboys and Indians.

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While Italian film financiers were making their own extraordinary cowboy films at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and off in Spain, West German producers needed an exotic, Western-esque stage of their own to film their countryman Karl May’s best-selling cowboy novels. They turned to socialist Yugoslavia and partnered up with Jadran Film, the Zagreb-based studio. What followed […]

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While Italian film financiers were making their own extraordinary cowboy films at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and off in Spain, West German producers needed an exotic, Western-esque stage of their own to film their countryman Karl May’s best-selling cowboy novels. They turned to socialist Yugoslavia and partnered up with Jadran Film, the Zagreb-based studio. What followed […]

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While Italian film financiers were making their own extraordinary cowboy films at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and off in Spain, West German producers needed an exotic, Western-esque stage of their own to film their countryman Karl May’s best-selling cowboy novels. They turned to socialist Yugoslavia and partnered up with Jadran Film, the Zagreb-based studio. What followed […]

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While Italian film financiers were making their own extraordinary cowboy films at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and off in Spain, West German producers needed an exotic, Western-esque stage of their own to film their countryman Karl May’s best-selling cowboy novels. They turned to socialist Yugoslavia and partnered up with Jadran Film, the Zagreb-based studio. What followed […]

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