Once Upon a Time in Indian Country

Oct 19, 2017

1h 37m

★ 7.0

Overview

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Riva Film

WDR

ARTE

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Cast

Mauser

Leonard Scheicher

Edda

Johanna Polley

Jackie

Emilia Schüle

Kondor

Joel Basman

Ponyhof

Johannes Klaußner

Laura

Katharina Behrens

Zöllner

Clemens Schick

Indian

Robert Alan Packard

Cowboy #1

Emilio Sanmarino

Cowboy #2

Yaw Boah-Amponsem

Coach

Stephan Katić

Receptionist

Soogi Kang

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