Country: Germany
Year: 2007
Duration: 90'
Rockstar, cowboy, socialist: during Cold War times US American singer and actor Dean Reed was the star of the Soviet Union, in the Eastern Bloc and South America. He acted in eighteen movies, recorded thirteen albums, utilizing his artistic talents for political ideals. Being a pacifist until the Pinochet Coup in Chile 1973, Reed joins Arafat shortly after. Reed never exhausted to engage himself until he is found dead in an East Berlin lake in 1986. “It is fascinating how much Reed’s destiny still moves people today. But this feeling is not so much caused by the circumstances of his death, it is rather the phenomenon of the great impact that he had on people. Dean Reed possessed every trait a typical Hollywood hero needed: he was extraordinarily handsome, a singer, an actor and had a very charismatic personality. Still, he left his home country and publicly criticized its imperialistic policies. The film reflects a time of history, whose issues and questions are still astoundingly contemporary.”
Biography
film director
Leopold Grün
(Dresden, Germany, 1968) qualified as a teacher in 1989, moved to Munich to study social and media pedagogy from 1990 to 1995, and then social sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1996 to 1998. In 2002 he graduated as a media consultant. He directed his first documentary, Annäherung, in 1993, followed by You’re Welcome (1995), Ob sie mir das glauben oder Nicht (1999) and Final Destination (2001). In 2001 he realized the short film Mitfahrgelegenheit. He has also created video installations with Nils Warnecke and published many articles on film. In 1999 he became managing director of the Berlin-based Institut Jugend Film Fernsehen. He has been co-curator of the Berlin short film festival, Emergeandsee, since 2001.
FILMOGRAFIA
Annäherung (doc., 1993), You’re Welcome (doc., 1995), Ob sie mir das glauben oder Nicht (doc., 1999), Final Destination (doc., 2001), Mitfahrgelegenheit (cm, 2001), Der Rote Elvis (doc., 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Leopold Grün
soggetto/story Peter Thiemann
fotografia, produttore/director of photography, producer Thomas Janze
montaggio/film editor Dirk Uhlig, Nils Hofmann
musica/music Monomango
suono/sound John Smith
interpreti/cast Dean Reed, Isabel Allende, Celino Bleiweiß, Renate Blume, Peter Boyles, Nils Düwell, Egon Krenz, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wiebke Reed, Günter Reisch, Will Roberts
produzione/production Totho cmp
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Arri Media Worldsales
soggetto/story Peter Thiemann
fotografia, produttore/director of photography, producer Thomas Janze
montaggio/film editor Dirk Uhlig, Nils Hofmann
musica/music Monomango
suono/sound John Smith
interpreti/cast Dean Reed, Isabel Allende, Celino Bleiweiß, Renate Blume, Peter Boyles, Nils Düwell, Egon Krenz, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wiebke Reed, Günter Reisch, Will Roberts
produzione/production Totho cmp
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Arri Media Worldsales