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Section: International Competition of European First Films
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country (2017)
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at the end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of a 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.
| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Duration | 96 min |
| Rating | 16 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Ilker Çatak |
| Screenplay | Nils Mohl und Max Reinhold |
| Director of Photography | Florian Mag |
| Music | Acid Pauli |
| Edited by | Jan Ruschke (BFS) |
| Contact | Riva Filmproduktion GmbH |
Biography
A German screenwriter and director of Turkish origin. He studied film at at schools in Berlin and Hamburg. He's created ads and his filmography includes several short films, e.g. Where We Are (Wo wir sind, 2014) and Fidelity (Sadakat, 2014), for which he won the Oscar for students. His first feature film is the drama Once Upon a Time... Indianerland (Es war einmal Indianerland, 2017).
Teenagers, Relationships, Love, Road movie, Crime, Music, Freedom