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It was an adaptation of a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, and another great success. His second DEFA film was Chingachgook, die Grosse Schlange/Chingachgook: The Great Snake (1966, Richard Groschopp) with Rolf Römer. The film was huge success and this was the start of a great career in East Germany.īetween 19, Gojko Mitić starred in 12 DEFA Westerns in which he always played the leading role of an Indian. The hero was – like Winnetou – a native American, rather than a white settler as in John Ford’s Hollywood Westerns. Then he was offered the lead role as Tokei-Into in the western Die Söhne der großen Bärin/The Sons of Great Bear (1966, Josef Mach), produced by the East-German DEFA studios in Babelsberg. He had a bigger part in the Western Unter Geiern/ Among Vultures (1964, Alfred Vohrer) starring Stewart Granger. Teil/The Last of the Renegades (1964, Harald Reinl), all starring Lex Barker and Pierre Brice. Teil/Apache Gold (1963, Harald Reinl), Old Shatterhand/Apaches Last Battle (1964, Hugo Fregonese) and Winnetou – 2. Examples are the Karl May adaptations Winnetou – 1. Mitic also started to play small parts in these Euro-westerns. Mitic was cast as a stuntman for some of these films, often German-French-Yugoslavian coproductions. In the early 1960’s, a lot of foreign productions were shot in Belgrad. He spent his childhood there but when he grew up, he went to Belgrad where he studied in the Sports School. Gojko Mitić (Гojкo Митић) was born in the little village of Leskovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) in 1940. He also worked as a director, stuntman, and author. The handsome star played in numerous Westerns from East-Germany between 19. Serbian actor Gojko Mitić (1940) was the most famous Indian in Eastern Europe. Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no.