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Tödlicher Irrtum

Progress picture   Year:
1970

Length:
99 minutes

Director:
Konrad Petzold

The setting is Windriver City, a small town in the Wild West in 1896. The search for oil by the Wyoming Oil Company has been successful on the territory of an Indian reservation. At first the Indians who live in very poor conditions hope for a better life, however, their naive belief that the white people will give them their fair share and accept them as equal partners proves to be a fatal error. Five chiefs die of mysterious causes - the work of the oil boss Allison.

Shave Head, the young son of the chief and his half-white/half-Indian brother Chris Howard fight desperately for the rights of their tribe. The oil boss stages another murder and orders the oil camp to be set on fire. Chris Howard and his brother attempt in vain to prevent the fire in the nearby barrack settlement. Chris is killed by two of Allisons' accomplices who are searching the cabin of the murdered deputy sheriff for the title-deed of the land of the unscrupulous oil bossU competitor.

English title: Fatal Error
Picture and text (c) 1983 Progress Film-Verleih