Anti-Western in the Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology
5 July 2018
Photo: Dark Star
The anti-Western will be on display for the Native American exhibition.
Together with the mobile cinema "Flexibles Flimmern", the LIB will show the western cult film "Little Big Man" on August 8 and 9. Before the film begins, Dr. Lioba Thaut, Deputy Head of the Exhibition Department, will give an introduction to the exhibition and event project Indians - Lost Worlds, which can be seen in the Zoological Museum and Botanical Garden until the end of September. Almost everyone knows Winnetou - but how did the indigenous peoples of North America really live? What is legend, what did the explorers pass down, what images inspired Karl May? The exhibition rolls up the history of North America from its beginnings and questions common clichés.
Just like the film "Little Big Man" from the 70s, which is often treated as an anti-Western. The flick was among Arthur Penn's most expensive, but also most successful works. Dustin Hoffmann plays the lead role in the film, which does not hold back with political, historical and socio-cultural criticism. The story tells of ten-year-old Jack Crabb, who loses his family in an Indian raid and survives only with his sister. Both are picked up by a Cheyenne Indian. Jack stays in the tribal camp, proves himself and from then on grows up like a tribesman. After an altercation with the U.S. Army, Jack must identify himself as a U.S. citizen to escape death. Back in white civilization, he finds himself in a world that has become alien to him.
The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Thomas Berger was made at the height of the Vietnam War, and its distorted depiction of history with humorous undertones is somewhat reminiscent of Forrest Gump. The film was already controversial at the time and was subject to massive attacks. The reappraisal of the genocide in American pop or commemorative culture, the educational landscape and the public is still an issue today.
The dates:
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Wednesday August 8, 2018 Admission: 6:30 p.m., Lecture and film start: 8 p.m.
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Thursday August 9, 2018 Admission: 6:30 p.m., Lecture and film start: 8 p.m.
Where: Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology, Bundesstraße 52, 20146 Hamburg
Reservations of the tickets (cost 10 euros) please by email to Flexibles Flicker:
reservierungen"AT"flexiblesflimmern.de
Admission only with valid ticket. There will be food and drinks to match the film.