Little Big man DVD 1970 / Directed by Arthur Penn / Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway

UPC 4010884524116

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: English 5.1, French mono, German mono, Italian mono, Spanish mono

SUBTITLES: English, English HOH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, German, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, Icelandic, Italian, Croatian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Chechen, Turkish, Hungarian

Runtime: 134 minutes

English Summary:

Little Big Man is a 1970 American western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. While broadly categorized as a western, or an epic, the film encompasses several literary/film genres, including comedy, drama and adventure. It is about a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century. The film is largely concerned with contrasting the lives of American pioneers and Native Americans throughout the progression of the boy's life. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. In 1970, 121 year-old Jack Crabb, the oldest living man in the world, is residing in a hospice, and recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

German Summary:

Little Big Man ist ein unter der Regie von Arthur Penn für das Kino produzierter US-amerikanischer Wildwestfilm – im engeren Sinne ein Anti-Western – aus dem Jahr 1970.

Im Alter von 121 Jahren wird Jack Crabb, Bewohner eines Altenheims der 1970er Jahre, Veteran der Indianerkriege und einziger weißer Überlebender der Schlacht am Little Big Horn, von einem Reporter, der von ihm etwas über die „primitive Lebensweise der Indianer“ erfahren möchte, interviewt. Aufgebracht von der Arroganz des jungen Möchtegern-Historikers, erzählt er ihm die Geschichte seines Lebens.

Dustin Hoffman stellt in der Hauptrolle des fiktiven „weißen“ Siedlersohnes Jack Crabb die Entwicklung eines mit unterschiedlichen Wertvorstellungen und sozialen Normen konfrontierten Menschen dar, der ab seinem zehnten Lebensjahr bei Indianern aufwächst und als Erwachsener zwischen den Kulturen hin- und hergerissen wird.

Cast / Besetzung

• Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb (a.k.a. Little Big Man)
• Faye Dunaway as Louise Pendrake (a.k.a. Lulu Kane)
• Chief Dan George as Old Lodge Skins
• Martin Balsam as Allardyce T. Meriweather
• Richard Mulligan as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
• Jeff Corey as Wild Bill Hickok
• Aimée Eccles as Sunshine
• Kelly Jean Peters as Olga Crabb
• Carole Androsky as Caroline Crabb
• Robert Little Star as Little Horse
• Cal Bellini as Younger Bear
• Thayer David as Reverend Silas Pendrake
• Ruben Moreno as Shadow That Comes in Sight
• Steve Shemayne as Burns Red in the Sun
• William Hickey as the Historian
• James Anderson as Sergeant (in his final film role)