Blood Brothers (1975 film)

Blood Brothers (German: Blutsbrüder) is a 1975 East German Western film directed by Werner W. Wallroth and starring Dean Reed, Gojko Mitic, and Gisela Freudenberg.^[1]

Blood Brothers
Directed by	Werner W. Wallroth
Written by	Wolfgang Ebeling Dean Reed
Starring	Dean Reed Gojko Mitic Gisela Freudenberg
Cinematography	Hans Heinrich
Edited by	Helga Emmrich
Music by	Karl-Ernst Sasse
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	DEFA
Release date	26 June 1975 (1975-06-26)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Röske and Marlene Willmann. It was made by the state-controlled DEFA company.

Cast

• Dean Reed as Harmonika
• Gojko Mitic as Harter Felsen
• Gisela Freudenberg as Rehkitz
• Jörg Panknin as Joe
• Cornel Ispas as Big Fred
• Iurie Darie as Bill Simmons
• Sina Fiedler-Engel as Servierin
• Alexandru Manea as Leutnant
• Eugenia Bosânceanu as Frau von Simmons
• Toma Dimitriu as Grauer Elch
• Pedro Hebenstreit as 2.Gast
• Fred Ludwig as 1.Gast
• Joachim Schönitz as Barkeeper
• Elena Sereda as Dicke Frau

Reception

In a 2007 article describing a Goethe-Institut event highlighting various Dean Reed films, Washington City Paper described the film as "pretty lousy" but recommended it to fans of "preening pretty boys, Elvis knockoffs, or cowboy-and-Indian flicks where everyone speaks German."^[2]